How the Rosetta Stone yielded its secrets

Re:How the Rosetta Stone yielded its secrets by boomboomsubban on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @01:54AM (#29327542)

Does anyone have an educated guess as to whether we'd now understand hieroglyphics without the Rosetta Stone? I know other phonetic languages with likely fewer available documents have been decoded without such a tool, but at least from a laypersons perspective the pictographs would male it much more complicated. I guess Demotic would allow one to workaround that hurdle.

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Re:How the Rosetta Stone yielded its secrets by lostlogin on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @01:58AM (#29327566)

I can’t answer you question, but there is at least one more poorly understood ’written’ language, the Quipu, made by the Inca.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu

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Re:How the Rosetta Stone yielded its secrets by flobosg on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @05:24AM (#29328595)

Here’s a list with more of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undeciphered_writing_systems

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Re:How the Rosetta Stone yielded its secrets by Bayart on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @05:57AM (#29328781)

You can just look at Linear A[1] if you want a well known example of that.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A

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Re:How the Rosetta Stone yielded its secrets by urubu on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @03:29AM (#29327974)

There are other bi-/trilingual texts, like the decree of Canopus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_of_Canopus

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