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Letter: AI must try to crack another ancient script

Published 17 August 2022

From Maureen Clayson, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK

I found the article “Cracking the code”, on the use of AI to read the ancient Mesopotamian script cuneiform, extremely interesting (6 August, p 40). It has got me wondering if such AI could be used, or perhaps is being used, to crack Linear A, the undeciphered ancient script of the Minoans of Crete? What a triumph it would be to finally translate that.

Issue no. 3400 published 20 August 2022

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