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This is somewhat far-fetched, but I'd like to see more historians/ archaeologists get into big data. As a society we are collecting the most important bits of h

This is somewhat far-fetched, but I'd like to see more historians/ archaeologists get into big data. As a society we are collecting the most important bits of history and putting them in digital form. One might just decipher a bit more of the Maya code by analyzing patterns in the scripts, for example.

pm90 14y ago
This is already being done. A physicist I worked with used statistical methods to decipher part of the script used by the Indus Valley Civilization: [0]:http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/apr/23/indus-civilisation-language-symbols http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/apr/23/indus-civilisa... [1]:http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~rao/indus.html http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~rao/indus.html