Do You Have What It Takes to Decipher Ancient Scripts?
Scripts from around the world remain undeciphered—the Rongorongo script of Easter Island. Linear A from Crete. The beautiful and mysterious Phaistos Disk. Sometimes the scripts remain silent because there isn’t a large enough database of characters. Other times, scholars can’t get a toehold because they don’t know what language the script is written in. Now and again, the right decipherer simply hasn’t yet come along. Will it be you? Here are some entertaining and enlightening books on the process of decipherment, examples of successes and failures, and insights into the lives of people who dare to venture into this challenging field.
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