Breakthrough in world's oldest undeciphered writing

BBC News ^ | Monday, October 22, 2012 | Sean Coughlan

[Eye of Unk]

Kilroy was here?

I bet that draws a lot of blank looks from the current generation.

[techcor]

“Warning: Anyone who reads this will release Cthulhu”

[BwanaNdege]

Wonderful!

I Laughed out loud!

(Ain’t PhotoShop wonderful?” One of these days I’ll have to buy a copy!)

[SIDENET]

LOL. Classic.

[Docbarleypop]

new update, its still a cook book, but the scanner picked up more words now the title reads “How To Serve Man”

[JoeProBono]

>Ain’t PhotoShop wonderful?” One of these days I’ll have to buy a copy!

Don’t.
It’s far too expensive. I do stuff pretty much just using IrfanView.

[TheOldLady]

“A stinkin’ COMMERCIAL??”

[BwanaNdege]

Thanks! I’ve just downloaded IrfanView and will give it a try.

[ApplegateRanch]

"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"..."

It is the long-lost To Serve Beef: The Complete Party Guide To Hosting A Beef Bash in Bashan cookbook.

[JoeProBono]

I also use Paint.NET

[Bellflower]

How does seeing them from a 3 d view help decipher them, as they very most likely are meant to be read as 2 d anyway? Someone please enlighten me or at least as seen from the front by the naked eye. They didn’t run around with a special machine to view every possible their script from every possible angle. They just read it.

[SunkenCiv]

Because they’re worn (because of age), the 3d image helps.

[gleeaikin]

Then there are the oddballs like Finish and Basque.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Finnish is related to Hungarian and Estonia, inter alia. ]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_languages

Basque may not actually be a complete isolate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_language#Relation_with_other_languages