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Scholars have compiled complete, updated databases of all known inscribed artefacts - crucial for decipherment.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2025

Champollion’s birthplace is celebrating the bicentennial of the decipherment with a program of events concluding in October.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2022

Sebald’s attempt at decipherment must become, in part, ours: we are trying to puzzle this material out, just as Sebald, the fanatical author-researcher, is.

From The New Yorker • May 29, 2017

A valuable key to the decipherment of hieroglyphs is the inscriptions on the Rosetta Stone.

From Washington Times • Oct. 28, 2015

He said that the quick decipherment enabled him “to avoid the systematic errors which invariably arise from prolonged reflection.”

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan