How archaeologists decipher languages that don’t exist anymore?

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How archaeologists decipher languages that don’t exist anymore?

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The key is often the discovery of an ancient translation. Thus the famous Rosetta Stone is inscribed with the same text in three scripts – Demotic, hieroglyphic and Greek. This was the key to deciphering the hieroglyphic script.

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