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Breakthrough in world's oldest undeciphered writing
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| Monday, October 22, 2012
| Sean Coughlan
Posted on 10/22/2012 8:03:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Experts working on proto-Elamite hope they are on the point of a 'breakthrough'
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posted on
10/22/2012 8:03:14 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
It says...0bummer is toast!
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posted on
10/22/2012 8:04:37 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
(Soli Deo Gloria!)
To: SunkenCiv
could be about to be decoded Could be, maybe not. While it's nice to hear about what people are working on it would be nice once in a while to read a story about an actual discovery.
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posted on
10/22/2012 8:08:49 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: SunkenCiv
Cretan Linear A?
Woops. no.
To: SunkenCiv
" making it possible to see that much of this information is about accounts of the ownership and yields from land and people. They are about property and status, not poetry."
So... it's a cash register receipt for foodstamp purchaes?
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posted on
10/22/2012 8:19:39 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
( If you think I'm crazy, just wait until you talk to my invisible friend.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/22/2012 8:21:01 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(World Series bound and picking up steam, GO GET 'EM,TIGERS!)
To: SunkenCiv
do they know if its right side up or not and which way its read from left to right, top to bottom?
Maybe its like Korean and symbols are actually syllables, not letters and the sounds tell us nothing about what the words mean.
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posted on
10/22/2012 8:23:01 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: SunkenCiv
"But this is painstaking work. So far Dr Dahl has deciphered 1,200 separate signs, but he says that after more than 10 years study much remains unknown, even such basic words as "cow" or "cattle"..."
This has now been Translated
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posted on
10/22/2012 8:24:01 PM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
(Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
To: BwanaNdege
Of course without knowing what the sounds mean, this alphabet is worthless
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posted on
10/22/2012 8:29:01 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: GeronL
“...a lost bronze age middle eastern society where enslaved workers lived on rations close to the starvation level...”
In the Middle East, slaves living at death’s door step is nothing new.
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posted on
10/22/2012 8:54:37 PM PDT
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
To: GeronL
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posted on
10/22/2012 8:55:09 PM PDT
by
50sDad
(A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here.)
To: SunkenCiv
Pretty slow way to tell me the cows are out.
Hopefully, the message is of much more import..
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posted on
10/22/2012 8:56:44 PM PDT
by
One Name
(Ultimately, the TRUTH is a razor's edge and no man can sit astride it.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
10/22/2012 9:07:08 PM PDT
by
Graewoulf
((Traitor John Roberts' Obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
To: One Name
I think I see M’s and O’s on that tablet... easy to Photoshop for someone who knows how...
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posted on
10/22/2012 9:18:57 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: 50sDad
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posted on
10/22/2012 9:22:56 PM PDT
by
TruthWillWin
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: GeronL
God has a most excellent sense of humor, considering how fallen 98% of Creation is...
Now we see through a glass darkly.
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posted on
10/22/2012 9:32:12 PM PDT
by
One Name
(Ultimately, the TRUTH is a razor's edge and no man can sit astride it.)
To: Jane Long
Nope...it says 16 trillion in debt...look at the 0’s.
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posted on
10/22/2012 9:35:07 PM PDT
by
Conservative4Ever
(The Obamas = rude, crude and socially unacceptable)
To: Jane Long
Toast? Did someone mention toast?
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posted on
10/22/2012 9:47:48 PM PDT
by
newheart
(The greatest trick the left ever pulled was convincing the world it was not a religion.)
To: BwanaNdege
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posted on
10/22/2012 9:49:46 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: GladesGuru
The non-slave average people probably weren’t much better off
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posted on
10/22/2012 9:51:43 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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