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How one should know that a combination of signs (or a separate sign) stands from "death" not, e.g. "food", "fortune", "treasure", "fame", etc? Regardless of in
by stared 10y ago
How one should know that a combination of signs (or a separate sign) stands from "death" not, e.g. "food", "fortune", "treasure", "fame", etc? Regardless of in how many different languages or styles repeated.
- antihero 10y agoHow did we figure out any historic languages? We researched them and analysed them. It's not really my field but there are ways of doing this and we've been doing it for thousands of years.
- stared 10y agoAnd mostly fail (unless we get some direct translation, like the Rosetta Stone). And if the civilization is gone, it's not unlikely that there won't be much more written record.