| It takes virtually no account of all that scholars have been able to learn about Egypt since the decipherment of hieroglyphics. |
| Using a small decryption exponent, d, has the advantage of allowing rapid decipherment. |
| The decipherment of their script has been the greatest achievement of recent years. |
| The recovery of Hittite was not a true decipherment because the script was a relatively common variety of syllabic cuneiform. |
| We have very few photographs of the artist, so every one of them becomes precious and open to decipherment. |
| The decipherment of Linear B was a sheer triumph of methodical cryptology, again based on the correct hunch that the hidden language was Greek. |
