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Etruscan and Meroïtic - Undeciphered Scripts
Year
2013
Language
ENGLISH
Duration
30m
Rating
TVPG
Publication Information
The Great Courses
Summary
Despite decades of effort by many qualified epigraphers, there are still dozens of undeciphered scripts. Turn to the failures of decipherment and the lessons that can be drawn from them by focusing on the attempted decipherment of two scripts, Etruscan and Meroïtic, which recorded languages with no known relatives or descendants.