Breakthrough in world's oldest undeciphered writing

[Cerise]

The world's oldest undeciphered writing system, which has so far defied attempts to uncover its 5,000-year-old secrets, could be about to be decoded by Oxford University academics.
This international research project is already casting light on a lost bronze age middle eastern society where enslaved workers lived on rations close to the starvation level

Continues ( at length) here....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19964786

I'm currently reading The 12th Planet which in part mentions ancient language/script. We really aren't as clever and innovative as we would like to think are we?

 

[David]

The world's oldest undeciphered writing system, which has so far defied attempts to uncover its 5,000-year-old secrets, could be about to be decoded by Oxford University academics.
This international research project is already casting light on a lost bronze age middle eastern society where enslaved workers lived on rations close to the starvation level

Continues ( at length) here....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19964786

I'm currently reading The 12th Planet which in part mentions ancient language/script. We really aren't as clever and innovative as we would like to think are we?

That must be annoying. Not only is there no language to tie it to, not only is this an extinct alphabet but it's misspelled and grammarly incorrect to boot! :giggle:

Figures such an important piece of history would be written by redneck equivalents.