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Re:Without a Rosetta Stone, can linguists decipher Minoan sc... by AlbertCory on Saturday June 18, 2022 @12:45PM (#31791513)
I just watched a movie on Prime (most of the movie, anyway) about the centuries-long effort to decipher the Mayan hieroglyphics. They've done a pretty good job of it, but it was really hard. They do not have a Rosetta Stone to work with.
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Re:Without a Rosetta Stone, can linguists decipher Minoan sc... by vladimir929 on Saturday June 18, 2022 @01:36PM (#31791983)
They did have the Mayan language to work with though.

The Minoan language has been likely dead for 2000 years.

That was also the breakthrough with the Rosetta Stone too. That Coptic was a modern version of ancient Egyptian.

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Re:Without a Rosetta Stone, can linguists decipher Minoan sc... by AlbertCory on Saturday June 18, 2022 @04:30PM (#31793544)
Fairly interesting movie. One 18-year-old guy got a MacArthur "genius" grant for his work on that. He presented a scholarly paper at age 12.
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Re:Without a Rosetta Stone, can linguists decipher Minoan sc... by sebastialonso on Sunday June 19, 2022 @04:14PM (#31802998)
what's the movie name?
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Re:Without a Rosetta Stone, can linguists decipher Minoan sc... by AlbertCory on Sunday June 19, 2022 @04:37PM (#31803242)
Breaking the Maya Code

fairly watchable.

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