$1 Million Prize Offered To Whoever Deciphers This 5,000-Year-Old Script

IFL Science ^ | January 27, 2025 | Benjamin Taub

[Fai Mao]

it says. “BBQ, next exit”

Where’s my prize?

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

Eat your ovaltine.

[ansel12]

When I tried they just emailed me back a nasty note saying that Ovaltine didn’t even exist back then, screw those people.

[Red Badger]

PinGGG!................

[beaversmom]

Ping

[MNJohnnie]

Don’t make me turn this chariot around!

[rdcbn1]

We will never know - it’s in cursive

[TheThirdRuffian]

Close, it says “drink your ovaltine.”

And below that “don’t sleep with a crazy woman”, and a picture of this girl O knew from Galveston.

[Jonty30]

The first picture seems to say “two wives”.

[Qwapisking]

your mistake was assuming it was called ovaltine back then. same formula, different name. but I think you’re right.

[reed13k]

I could hypothesize that it may be a very early form of proto-chinese or a branch off of proto-chinese were one went south of the himilayas and one went north

[BBB333]

Kilroy was here

[DouglasKC]

The second picture looks like it’s talking about something sexual. Bull penis and then look at the characters. They are suggestive of sexual activity.

[Hebrews 11:6]

“Take two and hit to right.”

[Red Badger]

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

😆

[BBB333]

I saved multiple sheckles by switching my goat insurance to GEICO...

[Jamestown1630]

Wasn’t there another thread on this just a little while ago?

I’m having ‘deja vu’.

[Qwapisking]

that first one looks to me like this guy had more than one wife and while it was legal at the time it wouldn’t stop them from from trying to murder each other. or it could be superman is real and when he went back into ancient history to fix something in the future he had to deal with that other guy’s two wives?