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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Could modern computers decipher hieroglyphics if we never found the Rosetta Stone?

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Could modern computers decipher hieroglyphics if we never found the Rosetta Stone?

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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

What if we never found the Rosetta Stone and could not read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Could computers or AI decipher them today?

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If I read correctly, they taught it to decipher cuneiform using the known translations. It didn’t “crack it” itself.

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