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Decoding antiquity: Eight scripts that still can't be read
New Scientist ^
| 27 May 2009
| Andrew Robinson
Posted on 05/29/2009 9:14:19 PM PDT by BGHater
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posted on
05/29/2009 9:14:20 PM PDT
by
BGHater
To: SunkenCiv
Ancient Languages chicken scratch ping.
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posted on
05/29/2009 9:15:17 PM PDT
by
BGHater
(It's easy to be a Conservative now.)
To: BGHater
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posted on
05/29/2009 9:22:22 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: BGHater
Eight scripts that still can't be read Nine, if you count Obambi's birth certificate.
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posted on
05/29/2009 9:25:12 PM PDT
by
Charles Henrickson
(What's your name? Who's your daddy?)
To: BGHater
On my trip to London a number of years ago, on of my highlights was to see the original Rosetta Stone on display at the British Museum. Now if the Brits would only return the Elgin Marbles back to the Greeks from whom they were really stolen
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posted on
05/29/2009 9:26:00 PM PDT
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: JoeProBono
That one is simple.
Obama is the greatest and so on.
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posted on
05/29/2009 9:30:42 PM PDT
by
razorback-bert
(We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.)
To: JoeProBono; Salamander; Markos33; GSP.FAN
I’m pretty sure I know what the first lines of that script say:
Moe: Mah Hah?
Curly: Ah Hah! Raz-banyah Yatchee benefucci a tinnimah coronji?
Moe: Yaskee-taskee a tiba gibbah sahee.
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posted on
05/29/2009 9:33:10 PM PDT
by
shibumi
(" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
To: BGHater
Some of these scripts are not likely to contibute much to our knowledge of world civilization, but Linear A, Etruscan, Meroitic, and Indus could tell us a lot about the early Minoan, Roman, and Egyptian civilizations, and everything about Indus Valley civilization.
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posted on
05/29/2009 9:35:25 PM PDT
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
To: razorback-bert
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posted on
05/29/2009 9:36:28 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
05/29/2009 9:41:29 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: shibumi
Uhh ehh uh ah ah
Ting tang walla walla bing bang
Uhh ehh uh ah ah
Ting tang walla walla bing bang
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posted on
05/29/2009 9:41:32 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: BGHater
I’ve got more than 8 scripts I wrote myself that even I can’t read.
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posted on
05/29/2009 9:43:16 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: JoeProBono
Hmmm. That tells a story about a flying saucer....
To: JoeProBono
LOL, Zero with a pancake on his head...!
To: JoeProBono
Probably an ancient tax form, if so it will remain undeciphered forever.
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posted on
05/29/2009 9:51:10 PM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: Lancey Howard
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posted on
05/29/2009 9:51:52 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Oh my lord,,,i decoded some of it!!
It says, “beware the rise of communism. A great nation under attack by,,,,”
Im going to have to work on it more,,its some african name starting with an “O”.
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posted on
05/29/2009 10:04:16 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dogs earn the title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
To: JoeProBono
I can't read all of it but what I understand from this script is that it goes something like this -
There once was a beautiful woman from Nantucket.....
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posted on
05/29/2009 10:04:29 PM PDT
by
jongaltsr
(Hope to See ya in Galt's Gulch.)
To: jongaltsr
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posted on
05/29/2009 10:08:04 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: BGHater
Not surprisingly, alot of the earliest tablets and scripts have been shown to be pretty mundane - 24 bushels of wheat, 14 cows, that sort of thing. Basic accounting and contracts.
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posted on
05/29/2009 10:13:55 PM PDT
by
djf
(Man up!! Don't be a FReeloader!! Make a donation today!)
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