[Cryptology] [The Cryptology Independent Study Project] The Codebreakers: Project 25.0

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Read chapter twenty-five, “Ancestral Voices.”  This chapter was very interesting to me, but not from a pure cryptological perspective.  If you are an anthropologist, linguist, or classicist you should find this interesting too.  It contains three cases of how languages are constructed, and the process of reconstructing each.  The most interesting part of the chapter is Miss Kober’s system, which ultimately leads to the decipherment of Linear B (pp. 924-927).  Takes about 2 hours to read.

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