Everything about Decipherment totally explained
Decipherment is the analysis of documents written in ancient
languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost.
It is closely related to
cryptanalysis — the difference being that the original document wasn't deliberately written to be difficult to decipher.
The term has also been used to describe the analysis of the
genetic code information encoded in
DNA - see the
Human Genome Project article for more on this.
Some people have also used the word metaphorically to mean something like 'understanding'.
Examples of document decipherment:
Famous documents that have been the subject of actual or attempted decipherment:
the Dresden Codex
the Phaistos Disc
the Rosetta Stone
the Behistun Inscription
the Voynich Manuscript
the Rohonc Codex
Famous decipherers:
Michael Ventris
Jean-François Champollion
Georg Friedrich Grotefend
Yuri KnorozovFurther Information
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