I might be wrong on this one but for something like the ancient egyptions and the hyieroglyphs, how did they even begin translating those? Same with other languages in general if there’s not “alphabet” for them. How do they know how the words sound phonetically?
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In terms of Egyptian hieroglyphs, archeologists found the Rosetta stone. This is a tablet that has both ancient Greek and hieroglyphs which turns out said the same thing. And since we knew ancient Greek we were able to build our understanding of hieroglyphs.
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