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

Re:Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle by Kosturdistan on Friday June 19, 2026 @03:36PM (#48602365)

He has a working draft of a manuscript that may form the basis of a scholarly article, it has been shared with experts, and there is an excerpt of the paper in my blog post. I have also seen and read the paper with my own 2 eys, I can't publish it though, Tom wants to keep that under wraps while it's reviewed by linguistics experts.

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Re:Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle by BigTTYGothGF on Friday June 19, 2026 @04:15PM (#48602770)

> He has a working draft of a manuscript that may form the basis of a scholarly article, it has been shared with experts

So did many of the previous attempted solvers.

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Re:Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle by Kosturdistan on Friday June 19, 2026 @04:33PM (#48602947)

One way to assess the validity of prior claims is to see how many words you can translate using their proposed system.

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Re:Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle by qustio on Friday June 19, 2026 @06:33PM (#48604081)

But the entire corpus for Linear A is tiny, you could backfill a "translation" that has no actual similarity with the real language when properly tested against novel examples. How was this tested?

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Re:Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle by evilfred on Friday June 19, 2026 @05:12PM (#48603291)

of course we have no way to assess this claim as there is no public software or paper to review

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Re:Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle by evilfred on Friday June 19, 2026 @04:05PM (#48602657)

the info provided is completely unverifiable.

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