Linguistics & Language · Writing Systems & Decipherment
A topic within Writing Systems & Decipherment, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.
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Jean-François Champollion
Announces that Egyptian hieroglyphs are not purely symbolic but include a phonetic alphabet used to spell foreign names, the breakthrough that opened the script to translation.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Ventris & Chadwick
Announces that Linear B tablets from Knossos and Pylos, read with Ventris's grid of sound values, transcribe an early form of Greek rather than an unrelated Aegean language.