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Jean François Champollion
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Champollion's letter to M. Dacier, in which he makes his first clear account of his decipherment. Ernest Doblhofer, Voices in Stone: The Decipherment of Ancient Scripts and Writings (1957; trans. 1961), provides biographical material...
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Behistun Inscription
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Inscription or Bisutun Inscription , cuneiform text, the decipherment of which was the key to all cuneiform script and opened to...section of the inscription, which later led to the entire decipherment of the Assyrian text.
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archaeology
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...John Pendlebury was also significant in this area, and the decipherment of the Minoan script by Michael Ventris raised new speculations...1794-1863) on the geography of the Bible and by the decipherment of a cuneiform inscription of Darius I, which was copied...
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Mycenaean civilization
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...1964); A. E. Samuel, The Mycenaeans in History (1966); G. E. Mylonas, Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age (1966); W. A. McDonald, Progress into the Past (1967); J. Chadwick, The Decipherment of Linear B (2d ed. 1968).
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Linear Scripts
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...is predominantly economic and religious. Bibliography: See D. W. Packard, Minoan Linear A (1974); J. Chadwick, Decipherment of Linear B (1970) and, with others, Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos (4 vol., 1987-99).
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Cipher Pad
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
...x2588; LARRY GILMAN A cipher pad is a printed list of cipher keys, each intended to be used for the encipherment and decipherment of a single message. Cipher pads (also termed one-time pads) are closely related to one-time tapes and stream ciphers...
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Champollion, Jean François
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Champollion, Jean François (1790–1832) French scholar, one of the founders of Egyptology. In 1822, he revealed his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics through study of the Rosetta Stone .
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Asoka
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...inscriptions are in Greek and Aramaic. Bilingual inscriptions have been discovered on many pillars, making possible the decipherment of Brahmi and Kharosthi scripts. Many of the pillars contain Arabic numerals, India's gift to mathematics. Asoka is...
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Michael George Francis Ventris
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...particularly Linear B, which was found at Knossos, Pylos, and other sites. In 1952 he collaborated with John Chadwick in the decipherment and subsequent publication of Documents in Mycenaean Greek (1956). His theory, now generally accepted by scholars, indicates...
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Vilhelm Thomsen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...at the Univ. of Copenhagen, where he did important work in Indo-European linguistics. His best-known work was the decipherment of the bilingual Turkic-Chinese inscription found on the Orkhon River in Mongolia. The inscription, published in 1894...
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