Agree about the bad title; but it does resolve an important question, which was whether the script was a language at all. Establishing that it has the regulari

Agree about the bad title; but it does resolve an important question, which was whether the script was a language at all. Establishing that it has the regularities of human language was a necessary first step. Here's another interesting example. The Luwian script's directionality couldn't be established. It was not certain whether it was up-down, up-down or up-down, down-up or various possibilities. This paper established using Expectation-Maximization the correct order of reading for the script: Discovering the linear writing order of a two-dimensional ancient hieroglyphic script http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~sdlin/publications.html http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~sdlin/publications.html Luwian script: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieroglyphic_Luwian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieroglyphic_Luwian