Via Bill Harris’ reliably time-wasting Friday Links, I found this fascinating New Scientist article about eight written languages we can’t decode, and how we’ve tried.

I was already thinking about this topic because the comic XKCD had a reference to the Voynich Manuscript, a more modern questioned text of odd provenance.

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