![]() ![]() Between these extremes lies a vast spectrum of opinion. At the other extreme, almost everyone agrees that the scripts of the Indus Valley civilisation and Easter Island (Rongorongo) are undeciphered – because no scholar can make sense of their inscriptions to the satisfaction of the majority of other specialists. At one extreme, everyone agrees that the Egyptian hieroglyphs have been deciphered – because every trained Egyptologist would make the same sense of virtually every word of a given hieroglyphic inscription (though their individual translations would still differ, as do all independent translations of the same work from one language into another). In its more technical sense, as applied to ancient scripts, ‘deciphered’ means different things to different scholars. In ordinary conversation, to decipher someone’s ‘indecipherable’ handwriting means to make sense of the meaning it does not imply that one can read every single word. ![]() It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Ventris was able to discover among the bewildering variety of the mysterious signs, patterns and regularities which betrayed the underlying structure. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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