an English scholar who had deciphered the cartouche of Ptolemy from the Rosetta Stone. Deducing that the other was that of Cleopatra, Young made a huge breakthrough, adding the letters “A” and ...

Linguists studying the Indus script don't know anything about the underlying language and there's no multilingual Rosetta Stone ... The latter was deciphered in the early 1950s (it turned out ...