Linguistics & Language · Writing Systems & Decipherment
Decipherment of Lost Scripts
A topic within Writing Systems & Decipherment, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.
Reading for Writing Systems & Decipherment
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Assumes you know the vocabulary.
- BookThe Decipherment of Linear BJohn Chadwick, 1958
The inside account of cracking a script with no bilingual key, and the best available case study in how decipherment actually proceeds.