The decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs in the 1820s is an intriguing case. Recognition for this great feat is generally — and properly — given to the French linguist and archaeologist Jean ...

They assumed that hieroglyphs were nothing more than primitive picture writing, and that their decipherment relied on a literal translation of the images they saw. In fact, the hieroglyphic script ...

The quest to decipher Maya hieroglyphs began with the very Spanish invaders whose hegemonic rule did so much to wipe out the ancient Maya script. Among them was the conquistador Hernando Cortes ...

"The Rosetta inscription has become the icon of decipherment, in general, with the implication that having bilinguals is the single most important key to decipherment. But notice this: although ...

French scholar Jean-François Champollion announced his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs on September 27, 1822 Trending Today Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History “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 ...

Curator Ilona Regulski said the Rosetta Stone was 'a very important object', and that the 200-year anniversary of the decipherment of hieroglyphs was 'an opportune moment to celebrate this very ...

Key to their decipherment was the analysis of eight inscriptions on silver beakers. Other research teams had previously decoded different Linear Elamite inscriptions, and the new study's authors ...

"This study subjects a claimed decipherment of an ancient New World script to rigid standards of proof, and shows that this script remains undeciphered," said Coe, author of the bestselling book ...

I think the Rosetta stone is really the key, not simply to ancient Egypt; it's the key to decipherment itself. You've got to think back to before it was discovered. All we knew about the ancient ...