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For the concept in cryptography, see Decryption.
In philology, decipherment is the discovery of the meaning of texts written in ancient or obscure languages or scripts.[1]
^Trask, R.L (2000). The Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, p. 82 ("The process of determining the relation between an extinct and unknown writing system and the language it represents. Strictly, decipherment is the elucidation of the script—that is, determining the values of the written characters")
to facilitate decipherment, the Rosetta Stone being the classic example. Statistical techniques provide another pathway to decipherment, as does the analysis...
advance the decipherment process, and many of them died early deaths. Edward Hincks, an Irish clergyman whose primary interest was the decipherment of cuneiform...
the famous decipherment and translation of the Rosetta Stone by Jean-François Champollion in 1822, some individuals attempted to decipher the writing...
The decipherment of cuneiform began with the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform between 1802 and 1836. The first cuneiform inscriptions published in...
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further their decipherment. By this time, this was largely known and accepted for several of these, such as Egyptian hieroglyphs (the decipherment of which...
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and philologist who deciphered Linear B, the ancient Mycenaean Greek script. A student of languages, Ventris had pursued decipherment as a personal vocation...
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the key to deciphering the hieroglyphs, but was held back by a belief in the mystical nature of the symbols. The breakthrough in decipherment came only...
which in 1823 played an important role in the modern decipherment of cuneiform and the decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts. Beyond its historical value...
towards a decipherment before 1944 to be of substantial value. Building on important work by Arthur Cowley and later by Alice Kober, the decipherment of Linear...
some of his proposed decipherments of the script accomplished with a team of other scholars. Their proposed near-complete decipherment was published in 2022...
make it impossible to decipher. This skepticism is justified not only by the failure of the numerous attempts at decipherment, but by the extreme rarity...
decipherment. Building on Grotefend's insights, this task was performed by Eugène Burnouf, Christian Lassen and Sir Henry Rawlinson. The decipherment...
The Decipherment of Linear B. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-39830-5. Cook, Mark. (2022). Rewriting History: The decipherment of...
role in deciphering Maya writing. Napoleon Cordy also made some notable contributions in the 1930s and 1940s to the early study and decipherment of Maya...
inscriptions were collected and published, which provided good basis for decipherment. In the 1960s the Russian researcher Vitaly Shevoroshkin showed that...
his faith in his decipherment, saying that "Recently we have confirmed that it is definitely an Indo-Aryan language and deciphered. Prof. W. W. De Grummond...
toward the decipherment of cuneiform. Georg Friedrich Grotefend had a son, named Carl Ludwig Grotefend, who played a key role in the decipherment of the Indian...
writing system ‘(Issyk-)Kushan script’ from now on". Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts Decipherment of cuneiform Bonmann, Svenja; Halfmann, Jakob; Korobzow...
some of characters. B. N. Mukherjee subsequently proposed a system of decipherment based on a few key inscriptions using the assumptions that the script...
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