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What does decipherment mean?

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Noun
  1. The analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost.
  2. Decryption.
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The next problem in the study of cuneiform was the decipherment of the second language in each of the trilingual groups.
The recovery of Hittite was not a true decipherment because the script was a relatively common variety of syllabic cuneiform.
Using a small decryption exponent, d, has the advantage of allowing rapid decipherment.
Already in the nineteenth century, the recovery and decipherment of writings from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia had caused an immense public stir.
Myths, in fact, are the words of a dead language to which a wrong sense has been given by a false method of decipherment.
It also refers us to the ambivalence of social bonds and their richness, through the decipherment of codes of manners.

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