How can people translate scripts that are no longer used nowadays?

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Some languages currently only exist in script (i.g. Egyptian hieroglyphs) and nobody of today use them in writing or speaking. But how can scientist translate and pronounce the words into today languages?

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Egyptian hieroglyphs specifically were decoded from the Rosetta Stone found in Rosetta, Egypt which had Greek on it as well which was the key used to understand hieroglyphs. Greek has been used for thousands of years and still is today. Lots of languages have also evolved, where people still speak some form of it, so they can use the words they know to figure out the words they don’t by using the context. Lots of languages still remain untranslatable to this day.

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