Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Breakthrough In World's Oldest Undeciphered Writing

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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. In a room high up in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, above the Egyptian mummies and fragments of early civilisations, a big black dome is clicking away and flashing out light.

This device, part sci-fi, part-DIY, is providing the most detailed and high quality images ever taken of these elusive symbols cut into clay tablets. This is Indiana Jones with software. It's being used to help decode a writing system called proto-Elamite, used between around 3200BC and 2900BC in a region now in the south west of modern Iran.

2 comment(s):

Anonymous said...

This is not the image of the real undeciphered writing system, found in iran the real image looks different from this, but its still great new about our Aryan Past.

Gerard said...

I can't show you the image found in Iran because it's copyrighted. This one isn't.