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Decipherment
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Code cracking
, Decoding of ancient scripts
, Decipher (disambiguation)
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Decipherment (in philology) is the discovery of the meaning of texts written in obscure languages or scripts, which are almost always ancient…
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2018
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2018
The First ‘European’ Writing: Redefining the Archanes Script
R. Decorte
Oxford Journal of Archaeology
2018
Corpus ID: 59417289
This paper investigates a series of glyptic inscriptions attested on Crete at the end of the third and beginning of the second…
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2016
2016
Bioinformatics Evolutionary Tree Algorithms Reveal the History of the Cretan Script Family
P. Revesz
2016
Corpus ID: 30918405
This paper shows that Crete is the likely origin of a family of related scripts that includes the Cretan Hieroglyph, Linear A…
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2012
2012
Cracking the Vocabulary Code in Mathematics in the Foundation Phase
C. Nel
2012
Corpus ID: 178384533
To children going to school for the first time, the symbols and the vocabulary of mathematics can resemble a foreign language…
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2010
2010
Max Loehr and the Study of Chinese Bronzes: Style and Classification in the History of Art
R. Bagley
2010
Corpus ID: 15061333
Max Loehr (1903-1988) is celebrated above all for a 1953 art historical study of Chinese bronzes that effectively predicted…
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2010
2010
Network analysis of a corpus of undeciphered Indus civilization inscriptions indicates syntactic organization
S. Sinha
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Md Izhar Ashraf
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R. K. Pan
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B. Wells
Computer Speech and Language
2010
Corpus ID: 2301869
2006
2006
Quantitative Methods for Classifying Writing Systems
Gerald Penn
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Travis Choma
North American Chapter of the Association for…
2006
Corpus ID: 200096
We describe work in progress on using quantitative methods to classify writing systems according to Sproat's (2000…
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2005
2005
SemCrypt - Ensuring Privacy of Electronic Documents Through Semantic-Based Encrypted Query Processing
M. Schrefl
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Katharina Grün
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J. Dorn
21st International Conference on Data Engineering…
2005
Corpus ID: 15000350
The trend towards outsourcing increases the number of documents stored at external service providers. This storage model, however…
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2005
2005
Complex Graphemes in Proto-Elamite
J. Dahl
2005
Corpus ID: 13232190
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2003
2003
Sanskritization Origins and Development of the Kuru State
Witzel
2003
Corpus ID: 54068618
The Mahābhārata is, by and large, the tale of a great battle between two sections of the ancient Kuru people of the Haryana/W…
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1997
1997
A newly discovered column in the hieroglyphic text on La Mojarra Stela 1 : A test of the Epi-Olmec decipherment
J. Justeson
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T. Kaufman
1997
Corpus ID: 13664137
A badly weathered column of hieroglyphs was discovered in November 1995 on the side of Stela 1 from La Mojarra in southern…
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