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> Clearly there must be additional Linear A inscriptions in Crete and possibly elsewhere. There are probably many of them in storage in various museums and ant
by p-e-w 3y ago
> Clearly there must be additional Linear A inscriptions in Crete and possibly elsewhere.
There are probably many of them in storage in various museums and antiquities departments.
The vast majority of ancient inscriptions ever found are uncatalogued, and some have never even been looked at. This includes inscriptions in languages we already know how to read. I remember reading long ago somewhere that well over 90% of all known Egyptian hieroglyphics texts haven't been translated yet.
Therefore, my guess is that once AI is good enough to do classification and translation automatically, there will be rapid progress, without requiring any new discoveries.