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Dead Languages: 10 of History’s Most Mysterious Undeciphered Ancient Scripts
by Lara Starr
According to anthropologists and other scholars from around the world, we humans have only been recording our language for about the last 13,000 years or so. Since that time we have had many lost languages that are no longer used. Most of which have been deciphered using codexes or rosetta stones we’ve found. However, not all of them are so easy to figure out.
There are actually quite a few ‘dead languages’ that are so hard to decipher that we STILL haven’t been able to translate them, even today. Here are what’s considered to be the ‘Top 10 Most Mysterious Undeciphered Texts Discovered Throughout History’:
Liber Linteus
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As if a linen book from a long-gone civilization weren’t fascinating enough, the origin of the Liber Linteus makes it even more morbidly amazing: it was once the wrappings on a mummy. Most of the Liber Linteus writings, which were removed from the female Egyptian mummy and later made into a book in the 19th century, can’t be translated because they were written in the little-understood Etruscan language. But what little scholars can understand reveals it to be some sort of ritual calendar.
The Rohonc Codex
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On 448 paper pages are transcribed – from right to left – unique symbols that total 10 times higher than any known alphabet in the history of the world. But nobody knows for certain just what the Rohonc Codex says, or who created it. Discovered in Hungary, the text has been studied by numerous paleography experts and scholars and appears to be religious in nature, with the code accompanied by illustrations and symbols of Christian, pagan and Muslim origin. Many Hungarian experts believe it’s a hoax, but if it is, it’s not gibberish – the patterns of the text follow those of authentic languages.
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