Page 148 through the blank wall of the Hittite decipherment. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
"I think decipherment happens before our eyes," said Balzac. From Wordnik.com. [Heartfire]
Fascinating story of the decipherment of Mayan hieroglyphics. From Wordnik.com. [What Should I Be Reading?] Reference
Prefixes are simply unnecessary and only obstruct decipherment. From Wordnik.com. [Prefixes in Minoan] Reference
The decipherment of the incoming signal succeeded on the first try. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Mechanica]
In decipherment, the more inscriptions you have, the better your chances. From Wordnik.com. [Conversations: A Singularly Human Pursuit] Reference
However, the details of decipherment are beyond the scope of this article. From Wordnik.com. [Primary sources of Maya history - part four] Reference
Don't schedule your appointment until a convincing decipherment is finalized, though. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: JIROFT.] Reference
Why are so many eccentric personalities attracted to the decipherment of lost languages?. From Wordnik.com. [Conversations: A Singularly Human Pursuit] Reference
You write about a number of unlikely researchers who have tried their hand at decipherment. From Wordnik.com. [Conversations: A Singularly Human Pursuit] Reference
"The main thing we need for advancing the decipherment of epi-Olmec script is more text data.". From Wordnik.com. [Epi-Olmec Decipherment] Reference
As long as archaeologists keep finding new material, some progress in decipherment is always possible. From Wordnik.com. [Conversations: A Singularly Human Pursuit] Reference
What scripts are on the brink of decipherment and have the best chance of being "cracked" in our lifetimes?. From Wordnik.com. [Conversations: A Singularly Human Pursuit] Reference
There is no doubt that Maya history really begins to unfold with the ongoing decipherment of the Maya script. From Wordnik.com. [Primary sources of Maya history - part five] Reference
Rather, each instance must still be assessed on its own merits for accuracy of decipherment and transcription. From Wordnik.com. [The New 'Ulysses': Grave Matters] Reference
This radical change in thinking was brought about by the decipherment of the Maya hieroglyphic writing system. From Wordnik.com. [Reinventing the Aztecs, part one] Reference
Before the decipherment of the cuneiform texts our knowledge of its history, however, was scanty and questionable. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Again the signal had come in the now-familiar groups of symbols so that a decipherment should not be too difficult. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Mechanica]
In Breaking the Maya Code (1992), M. Coe describes in detail the long and controversial history of the decipherment. From Wordnik.com. [Primary sources of Maya history - part three] Reference
Later, Maya scholars aided by decipherment of the Maya script revealed the historical content of these stone markers. From Wordnik.com. [Primary sources of Maya history - part one] Reference
With the right tools, even seemingly innocent texts can be made to confess, to yield up their secrets to decipherment. From Wordnik.com. [Romantic Loves: A Response to _Historicizing Romantic Sexuality_] Reference
After the League broke up, there was no decipherment program anymore, and the units lay virtually forgotten in storage. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
The decipherment of the Egyptian inscriptions seems to bring us into communication with a still more remote form of language. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
"The Corpus project was driving the decipherment," says David Stuart, a master epigrapher who works with Graham on the Corpus. From Wordnik.com. [Maverick Mayanist] Reference
As background to the historical content of the Maya inscriptions it may be helpful to look at the history of the decipherment. From Wordnik.com. [Primary sources of Maya history - part three] Reference
Read Chadwick, The decipherment of linear B 1990, p.34: The basic idea was to find a language which might be related to Minoan. From Wordnik.com. [The Minoan name for Minoa] Reference
"Your decipherment is not up to your own standard of understanding maybe," said Balzac, "but it is enough to leave me breathless.". From Wordnik.com. [Heartfire]
One might also be a little suspicious at the remarkable number of "ground-breaking discoveries" in the course of the decipherment. From Wordnik.com. [Primary sources of Maya history - part five] Reference
With recent advances in the decipherment of the Maya hieroglyphic writing system, we can now "read" most of the hieroglyphic texts. From Wordnik.com. [Mesoamerican Religion: Symbolism of the Gods Part One] Reference
Halperin begins his defense of historicism by admitting "my major preoccupation is with the accurate decipherment of historical documents". From Wordnik.com. [The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality] Reference
Nevertheless, they are important both for the decipherment and in the reconstruction of the intellectual and cultural history of the Maya. From Wordnik.com. [Primary sources of Maya history - part three] Reference
However, recent progress in the decipherment of the Maya hieroglyphic writing system has shed new light on the subject, although many difficulties remain. From Wordnik.com. [The Books of Chilam Balam - part one] Reference
Other discoveries, along with the gradual decipherment of individual glyphs, began to reveal Maya history, at least from the viewpoint of the ruling classes. From Wordnik.com. [Primary sources of Maya history - part three] Reference
In my view, the decipherment of the Maya script - although still not quite complete - is by far the most important breakthrough in our knowledge of the ancient Maya. From Wordnik.com. [Primary sources of Maya history - part four] Reference
In this paper we propose a method for the automatic decipherment of lost languages. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Verb] Reference
An antique motto ran round it, and with eyes and fingers we struggled at the decipherment. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Age] Reference
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