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French archaeologist says he cracked a mysterious 4,000-year-old Bronze Age script from ancient Iran

For more than a century, scholars stared at the same strange marks and got almost nowhere. The signs belonged to Linear Elamite, a 4,000-year-old writing system from ancient Iran. They appeared on ...
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Emmett Bennett; deciphered script from Bronze Age

Emmett L. Bennett Jr., a classicist who played a vital role in deciphering Linear B, the Bronze Age Aegean script that defied solution for more than 50 years after it was unearthed on clay tablets in ...