Dead scripts, living voices

Decipherment is not translation. It is an act of intellectual archaeology performed in the dark, with fragmentary evidence and the constant risk of total failure. This book follows the men and women who bet their careers, their reputations, and sometimes their sanity on the chance that a dead script could speak again.

Decipherment is not translation. It is an act of intellectual archaeology performed in the dark, with fragmentary evidence and the constant risk of total failure. This book follows the men and women who bet their careers, their reputations, and sometimes their sanity on the chance that a dead script could speak again.