Actual decipherment began with an eccentric European genius named Constantine Rafinesque, who boasted of having dabbled in more than a dozen professions, from archeology to zoology. His insatiable ...

This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris was written by his close collaborator in the momentous discovery. In revealing the secrets of Linear B it offers ...

In the dusty city states of ancient Mesopotamia, long before the advent of written language, mysterious symbols etched into ...

You’re gaining access to a whole secret code that many others cannot penetrate. The romance of Champollion’s decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs or Michael Ventris’ work on Linear B, not to mention ...

If his findings are correct they could be a breakthrough leading to a possible full decipherment of the book. The story of the man who discovered the Voynich Manuscript for the modern world may be ...

The pastness of the past, then, depends upon a historical sensibility which can hardly begin to operate without permanent written records; and writing introduces similar changes in the transmission of ...

and the extraordinary but peaceful scholarly contest that led to the most famous decipherment in history - the cracking of hieroglyphics. "In the Memphis Decree, we find a Greek view of the world ...

Thanks to the relatively recent decipherment of Maya script, we can now read the images and the writing on their monuments as the names and histories of actual rulers. In the course of the ...

In this time line, follow the centuries-long decipherment, which has only recently reached the point where scholars can read more than 90 percent of the glyphs.—Rima Chaddha ...