Decoding Antiquity: Eight scripts that still can't be read

in New Scientist

Andrew Robinson

There are approximately 8 lost langauges that scientists are trying to decipher. One of them is rongo-rongo, a written langauge on Easter Island. In order to read rongo-rongo, you begin at the lower left corner, read a line, then rotate the stone 90 degrees.

The article also discussed Etruscan, which is written right to left and based on the Greek alphabet.

The language of the Indus Civilization usually only includes about 5 characters. The longest inscription is 20 characters.

The New World has at least 3 fascinating languages that have not yet been deciphered.

The Black Pharoahs of Egypt had their own as-yet undeciphered script.