SCRIBE STATUE. FOUND: Lagash, Iraq. CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ...
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What is the Voynich manuscript?

We’ve been able to decipher ancient Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs, Cuneiform, and Old Persian, but not Voynichese.