Amateurs. This one is obvious ... "Epstein didn't kill himself."
Posted on 02/18/2025 6:54:37 AM PST by BenLurkin
The Indus Valley civilization was one of the most advanced in the world for over 500 years. More than 1000 settlements sprawled across 250,000 square miles of what is now Pakistan and northwest India from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE. It had several large, well-planned cities like Mohenjo-daro, common iconography, and a script no one has been able to understand.
Linguists studying the Indus script don't know anything about the underlying language and there's no multilingual Rosetta Stone, but scholars have analyzed its structure for clues and compared it to other scripts. Most Indologists think it's “logo-syllabic” script like Sumerian cuneiform or Mayan glyphs. But they disagree about whether it was a spoken language or a full writing system; some believe it represented only part of an Indus language.
One team has created the first publicly available, electronic corpus of Indus texts. Another, led by computer scientist Rajesh Rao, analyzed the randomness in the script's sequences [PDF]. Their results indicated it's most similar to Sumerian cuneiform, which suggests it may represent a language.
The Indus Valley script is far from the only one to remain mysterious. Here are eight others you might try your hand at deciphering.
Linear A
Cretan Hieroglyphics
Wadi el-Hol Script
Sitovo Inscription
Olmec Writing
Singapore Stone
Rongorongo
Proto-Elamite
(Excerpt) Read more at mentalfloss.com ...
9. My handwriting.
As to the Olmec writing, there’s this:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17816888/#:~:text=Abstract,over%20the%20last%202%20years.
Interesting!
Not to mention the IRS Tax Code.
Beware of theives named Democrats as they steal your treasure and...
Kamala speak
Imagine way in the future, when they unearth the text of Kamala’s speeches.
Amateurs. This one is obvious ... "Epstein didn't kill himself."
9. My handwriting.
LOL, you stole my post.
Over here!
The US tax code.
I’m betting each of those languages references, ‘Ovaltine’.
I wish they’d called me. We speak Proto-Elamite in the home
I can write in cursive, but no one can read it.
In her Plato Prehistorian: 10,000 to 5,000 B.C. Myth, Religion, Archaeology, Mary Settegast reproduces a table (above) which shows four runic character sets; a is Upper Palaeolithic (found among the cave paintings), b is Indus Valley script, c is Greek (western branch), and d is the Scandinavian runic alphabet.The Ancient Wisdom: Origin of Writing [this kinda poor scan is one *I* did 20 or so years ago, and my online version of it died with tinypic; but of course, I feel famous. Even the caption was what I'd typed in, btw. Dunno who "ancient wisdom" is, maybe a FReeper? :^)]
[[ The Indus Valley civilization was one of the most advanced in the world for over 500 years]]
Pfftt, most advanced? They couldn’t even speak English!
This is a job for AI. As a matter of fact it just deciphered one of those languages. Translation below.
“Gallon of milk, dozen eggs , lb. Of bacon, cat litter.” Ok, the last item is questionable 😅
The rest of the 'Lost Languages' keyword, sorted:
The Enigma Of The World's Undeciphered Scripts
by Andrew Robinson
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