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5 Mysterious Writing Systems That No One Has Deciphered: These ancient scripts offer tantalizing clues about civilizations we still don’t fully understand.Crystal Ponti, History (5/15/26) The five undeciphered writing systems covered in this post are: Linear A, Indus Script, Rongorongo, Proto-Elamite, and The Phaistos Disk. We have discussed each of these scripts on Language Log, some of […]

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