Questions tagged [undeciphered-writing]
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Could the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs have been deciphered without the Rosetta Stone with modern tech?
The Rosetta Stone was one of the most important documents in the history of linguistics. Discovered around 1800, it allowed Ancient Egyptian to be deciphered. Let's say that the stone didn't exist, was destroyed like the Library of Alexandria, or…
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Decoding unknown language
When I was at school they told the Rosetta Stone was useful to decode hieroglyphics, because it had the same text in a known and in an unknown language (at least that's what I remember).
And, generally, reading around it seems this is the usual…
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Can you decipher a language without any translation?
So, I was thinking, if we have the tech to store information for billions of years (which we strangely enough do - I'm talking about the 5D storage devices), what if we store a vast collection of books, only for some intelligent life(AI,…
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