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	Earlier Attempts at Indus Sign Decipherment
		With rare intellectual courage he has now abandoned the paradigm central to the earlier Finnish model of decipherment and has made a virtually fresh beginning.
		The analysis is sound; but his model of decipherment based on the Dravidian hypothesis (published in 1992 shortly before his death) has not been taken seriously because of his lack of familiarity with the Dravidian languages and linguistic techniques.
		n his brief review of the earlier attempts at decipherment of the Indus script, Parpola takes no notice of the models based on the Indo-Aryan hypothesis, presumably because there is hardly anything in common between them and his own work.
	www.harappa.com /script/maha5.html (477 words)

	Iconography Decipherment
		There are some parts of his decipherment which I don't personally agree with but none the less it was pioneering work driven by determination and excellent intuition.
		Because of the many references and depth of study her work cannot really be ignored in the context of Neolithic interpretation and as such she is worthy of the additional label 'Archaeomythologist".
		These then are the main players in Neolithic decipherment studies; what I hope to do is further extend some of these findings into another direction and maybe come up with an even more unique decipherment.
	www.bluhorizonlines.org /icon/icon.html (0 words)

	GOULD1.HTM
		The history of the decipherment of the written language of the Maya can be traced back to the conquistadors, the Spanish conquerors of Mexico, who first entered the Yucatan in 1519.
		Finally, underlying the story of the decipherment of the written language are the Maya -- their civilization, culture and history.
		Unfortunately, it also prevailed as the conventional wisdom with respect to the written language of the Maya and caused the decipherment of it to suffer by reason of the same misconception as to the meaning of the symbols.
	www.chilit.org /GOULD1.HTM (4731 words)

	Saqqara Online
		Whereas many of his competitors in the race for decipherment believed the hieroglyphic script was purely symbolic or alphabetic, Champollion realised that it is in fact phonetic, meaning that the signs represent sounds, and only partly alphabetic.
		He also realised that the same sound could be written with different signs and that there were signs at the end of a word that did not represent a sound but which determined the category of the word.
		Although the credit for the decipherment of the hieroglyphic script goes to Champollion, scholars around the world competed with him for this honour.
	www.let.leidenuniv.nl /saqqara/Egyptology/Hieroglyphs.html (791 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for decipherment
		or Bisutun Inscription, cuneiform text, the decipherment of which was the key to all cuneiform script and opened to scholars the study of the written works of ancient Mesopotamia.
		The inscription in Old Persian, in Susian (the Iranian language of Elam), and in Assyrian is chiseled on the face of a...
		His best-known work was the decipherment of the bilingual Turkic-Chinese inscription found on the Orkhon River in...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=decipherment (847 words)

	Glyphs, Navajo etc. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Strictly speaking, the decipherment of ancient scripts is not part of the ongoing evolutionary battle between codemakers and codebreakers, because, although there are codebreakers in the shape of archaeologists, there are no codemakers.
		That is to say, in most cases of archaeological decipherment there was no attempt by the original scribe to deliberately hide the meaning of the text.
		However, the principles of archaeological decipherment are essentially the same as those of conventional military cryptanalysis.
	www.simonsingh.net /Glyphs_to_Navajo.html (308 words)

	Decipherment
		Second, you reverse the cipher system, producing an alleged plaintext [i.e., text produced by decipherment] from the ciphertext [i.e., text to be deciphered].
		The decipherer must provide some reason to believe that the key existed before he started working on the cipher.
		The plaintext is the goal of the decipherment, i.e., the text produced by applying the key to the ciphertext.
	www.megasociety.net /noesis/138/decipher.html (395 words)

	The Story of Decipherment
		The great age of decipherment dawned in the mid-eighteenth century, at the time of the Enlightenment, with the Abbé Barthélemy's solution of the Palmyra script.
		The author discusses the contributions to the science of decipherment made by theorists and practitioners, examining the intellectual developments that led to their outstanding achievements.
		He explains the process of decipherment largely from the point of view of the practitioners themselves, but in a way that laypeople can follow.
	www.thamesandhudsonusa.com /arch_new/528105_arch.htm (215 words)

	Writing Systems in Precolumbian Mesoamerica/Mayan
		The history of the decipherment of the logophonetic Mayan script is long and colorful, marked by major breakthroughs in the 1970s and 1980s.
		Some deal with decipherment directly and make important contributions by methodologically and ingeniously marshaling evidence of many kinds in support of specific phonetic--that is, linguistic--interpretations of one or more signs in particular contexts.
		The authors use improvements in hieroglyphic decipherment and chemical technology in an analysis of two Classic Mayan vases, one unprovenienced and one archaeologically excavated, to provide insights into the economic, political, and social exploits of the Maya.
	www.albany.edu /~cr8474/mesoamwrtg/mayan.html (1287 words)

	Hieroglyphs and History at Copán
		The Demise of Ruler 13 and of Copán
		Work over the past ten years has resulted in the decipherment of many inscriptions at Copán, although it must be said that several texts still elude even a cursory understanding.
		Consequently, the progress in decipherment at Copán has developed hand-in-hand with, and in some ways as a result of, methodological advances on a much broader front.
	www.peabody.harvard.edu /Copan/text.html (5135 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Decipherment (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Decipherment is the analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost.
		Some people have also used the word metaphorically to mean something like 'understanding'.
		Famous documents that have been the subject of actual or attempted decipherment:
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/de/Decipherment (125 words)

	The Hindu : Magazine / Culture : Towards a scientific study of the Indus Script
		In retrospect, this has turned out to be a very salutary precaution, as the Concordance is now used world over by all researchers, whatever be their own views on the language of the Indus Script.
		After all, linguistic decipherment of the Indus Script is the ultimate objective of research.
		While it is true that linguistic decipherment has not yet been achieved, much preliminary work like determination of the direction of writing, segmentation of texts into words and phrases, and isolation of grammatical features like suffixes has been completed.
	www.hindu.com /mag/2007/02/04/stories/2007020400260500.htm (1991 words)

	The Discovery and Decipherment of the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum
		Located in a display case on the ground floor of the British Museum in London, usually surrounded by a crowd of people, is a large slab of fl basalt known as the Rosetta Stone (figure 1).
		It is the three inscriptions that make this object so important because it was the decipherment of these texts that was essential for the translation of hieroglyphics.
		The curators also acknowledge the discovery of the Rosetta Stone and discuss the decipherment of the inscriptions by Young and Champollion noting that their efforts benefited archaeologists, Egyptologists, and students of Egyptian history.
	www.nicholls.edu /art-dhc/surveyessays/rosetta.htm (2549 words)

	Sumerian Mythology: Introduction
		To return to the decipherment of cuneiform Persian, by 1846 Rawlinson published his memoir in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, which gave the transliteration and translation of the Persian version of the Behistun inscription together with a copy of the cuneiform original.
		The decipherment of this language was simplified on the one hand by the fact that it was recognized quite early in the process that it belonged to the Semitic group of languages.
		Its decipherment, therefore, would have been an impossible task, were it not for the fortunate fact already mentioned that the Semitic conquerors of Sumer not only adapted its script to their own Semitic tongue, but also retained it as their literary and religious language.
	www.sacred-texts.com /ane/sum/sum05.htm (7302 words)

	'Grotefend', a tool for deciphering syllabic scripts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At the most basic level, the decipherer h as to make sure that the textual material s/he is looking at consists of samples of the same language.
		If we manage to determine the minimal length of text that is needed for the identification of a given text as representing a given language with a given degree of probability, we are in a better position to collect a corpus of texts that are indeed written in one language.
		Problems of decipherment are further compounded by the fact that the script tells us very little about the phonology of the language unless we know the degree of fidelity with which phonemic contrasts are reflected by the it.
	www.ach.org /ACH_Posters/grotefend.html (1031 words)

	Special Circumstances: The Decipherment of Linear B by John Chadwick (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The decipherment process itself as documented here is an intellectual treat.
		Born in 1922, he studied to be an architect in London and after earning his diploma worked on the design on new schools.
		Meanwhile, in 1952 he claimed to have discovered the key to the Minoan script (amazingly the first decipherment of the Mayan script also occured in 1952, see "Breaking the Maya Code").
	www.cs.sfu.ca /~anoop/weblog/archives/000030.html (535 words)

	Lydian Intro
		Based on the present decipherment, the ancient Lydian language appears to be indentical to Etruscan, which survives as the present-day Ukrainian.
		To continue on the path of decipherment in a logical way, and to check if there is any truth in Herodotus' statement I began to look for Lydian writings.
		Also, it seems that some of the inscriptions in Greek alphabet were written later and at that time some letters were modified, or added to the alphabet, which was used at the time of the dispute.
	home.att.net /~oko/lydian/l-intro.htm (1460 words)

	Decipherment: sequential steps
		A decipherment of the language, script and inscriptions of Sarasvati-Sindhu civilization ca.
		The website is a small step in the process of establishing the possibility of a definitive decipherment of the script and inscriptions of the Sarasvati-Sindhu civilization.
		This can truly be a collective effort of all indologists using the website as a spring-board for further studies in general semantics and the Indian Linguistic area circa 3000 B.C. The author would deeply appreciate critical comments and suggestions to further advance/refine this process using and augmenting the resources provided by the website.
	www.hindunet.org /hindu_history/sarasvati/html/deciphersteps.htm (706 words)

	The Decipherment (Hieroglyphics!)
		Detailed explanation of the decipherment, from "On Reading Egyptian.".
		Brief historical discussion of the Egyptian language and its decipherment by Mari Smith for "Writing Systems of the World," part of the Explore!
		English translation of the Rosetta stone entered by David Dull, evidently from the British Museum.
	www.isidore-of-seville.com /hieroglyphs/2.html (342 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Decipherment of Linear B
		Evans's other contribution to the decipherment was to notice that there were two particular symbols, one looking like a box and the other like a backwards '5', that were often used to end words that were otherwise identical.
		He took this as an indication that the language used the system of changing the ending of a word to denote the word's function that is common in most European languages.
		The next stage in the decipherment of the script was carried out by an American archaeologist by the name of Alice Kober.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A4596735 (3693 words)

	More on Decipherment
		Here is free textual content related to Decipherment to utilize on your web site in accordance wi th the GNU license.
		Decipherment is the analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost.
		It is closely related to cryptanalysis — the difference being that the original document was not deliberately written to be difficult to decipher.
	www.artilifes.com /decipherment.htm (269 words)

	Aryan Invasion Theroy and Politics: The Case of David Duke
		Unless and until a kind of Rosetta stone is found, a bi-lingual text juxtaposing a text in Indus script and its translation in another, known language, their hypothesis hangs in the air, not susceptible to passing any external test.
		Even Rao's fans and all those Indians who applaud his decipherment have not moved a finger to strengthen his case by adding some research of their own along the same lines.
		Rao's decipherment, a few are interesting because they share his general approach while not going along with him into the details of his decipherment.
	koenraadelst.bharatvani.org /articles/aid/vedicharrapans.html (7271 words)

	ANISTORITON: Viewpoints (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1975, a decipherment was succinctly published in a French scientific journal by the present writer, who, not being on the faculty of any university, had been free to solve the enigma without being considered as a fool by his colleagues.
		The decipherment was, nevertheless, quite different from others, because it was not starting from some postulate concerning the origin of the Disk or the language used or the type of script, but was just based upon a 7-year statistical work.
		The decipherment of the Phaistos Disk enters very well in the Kretschmerian frame : c.3000 BCE, the "first Greeks", the Proto-Ionians, came by sea from the Danubian Delta and settled at Troy, then a few centuries after in the Cycladic Islands and on some coastal places in Greece (Attica and Euboea, in particular).
	www.anistor.co.hol.gr /english/enback/v002.htm (2258 words)

	ON THE STORY OF THE DECIPHERMENT OF IBERIAN WRITING
		The beginnings of the decipherment (more accurate is the term decoding) of the Iberian writing are a curious example of how a correct theoretical base could lead to a wrong result, whereas a clearly wrong one lead to the right answer.
		This decipherment allowed a better identification of the different pre-Roman writings: it is recognized a distinction between the Iberian inscriptions (in fact the Celtiberian and the Levantine Iberian together) and Southern inscriptions (Sudlusitanian and Meridional Iberian together).
		Gómez-Moreno decipherment of Iberian was almost complete though some significant advances and corrections have been made by Maluquer de Motes, Untermann and Rodríguez Ramos on Iberian, and by Schmoll and Villar on Celtiberian.
	www.webpersonal.net /jrr/ib10_en.htm (967 words)

	Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment - The British Museum - Absolutearts.com
		This exhibition about the decipherment of scripts celebrates the bicentenary of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, immediately acclaimed at the time as a `most valuable relic of Antiquity'.
		The Rosetta Stone is a the remains of a stela inscribed with a priestly decree for Ptolemy V (196BC) in three scripts; hieroglyphic, a cursive form of ancient Egyptian, and ancient Greek.
		The Stone is long established as an instantly recognisable icon of script and decipherment, and one of the objects on display in the British Museum which attracts most visitors.
	www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/1999/07/10/25568.html (357 words)

	World Mysteries - Strange Artifacts, Phaistos Disk (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fischer's previous decipherment, of a Cretan artifact called the Phaistos Disk, provided the key to the ancient Minoan language and showed it to be closely related to Mycenaean Greek.
		Fischer's decipherment of Rongorongo showed that it was not merely a mnemonic device for recalling memorized texts, but was physically read and was the vehicle for creative composition.
		Written by the greatest decipherer that ever lived, Steven Roger Fischer--the only person to ever decipher two ancient scripts--"Glyphbreaker" is the remarkable story of his two decipherments,.
	www.world-mysteries.com /sar_9.htm (1708 words)

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