Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle

Re:Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle by cwmma on Friday June 19, 2026 @02:26PM (#48601580)

Surprisingly this comes up more then you'd think, for instance in Ancient Rome, tomorrow is two days away so all the dates are off by one from what you'd think it was. They mainly count down and it goes, 5, 4, 3, day before, day.

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Re:Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle by codebaobab on Friday June 19, 2026 @03:33PM (#48602323)

I noticed that when I read Tom Holland's new translation of The Lives of the Caesars. All the dates were in the form "N days before Kalends/Ides".

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Re:Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle by mcswell on Friday June 19, 2026 @06:16PM (#48603906)

I think it comes up in the Gospels, too, e.g. "on the third day" after the resurrection.

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