This story seems a little bit puffed up. There has been exciting recent progress in the decipherment of another early writing system, Linear Elamite.[0] In fac

This story seems a little bit puffed up. There has been exciting recent progress in the decipherment of another early writing system, Linear Elamite.[0] In fact, French archæologist/philologist François Desset announced last year that he has deciphered all known Linear Elamite inscriptions.[1] (Someone posted this to HN at the time, but it got no traction.[2]) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Elamite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Elamite [1]: https://www.archaeoreporter.com/en/2020/11/27/deciphering-linear-elamite-the-worlds-oldest-phonetic-writing-system-watch-a-sneak-preview-of-how-to-translate-these-inscriptions/ https://www.archaeoreporter.com/en/2020/11/27/deciphering-li... [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25345680 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25345680