Artifacts
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The Rosetta Stone - Triple Cypher
The Rosetta Stone is an Ancient Egyptian artifact which provided the key to understanding hieroglyphic writing.
It is a black basalt fragment of a stela (a free-standing stone inscribed with Egyptian governmental or religious records) discovered in...
January / February 2013
Linear A & Linear B - Lost Minoan
On Crete, a southern island of Greece, is Knossos, one of the most important Palaces of Minoan civilization. It is important not only in its historical features, but also in its mythological background, as well as being the location of some fascinating...
March / April 2013
The Voynich Script - Cryptic Codex
The exact starting place and time of this story are not completely known, so we will begin in Frascati, near Rome, in 1912. There was the Villa Mondragone. It was built in 1573, and served as a temporary residence for nobles and popes for a few centuries...
May / June 2013
The Phaistos Disc - Puzzle of Crete
Ancient Crete has been a source of a few language puzzles. In the palace of Knossos, three different writing systems were discovered, in the forms of a hieroglyphic script, Linear A, and Linear B (see Parrot Time issue two for Linear A - Lost Minoan)....
July / August 2013
Rongorongo - Island Chants
Easter Island, located in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, has two ancient mysteries related to it. The more famous of these are the huge statues, called Moai, which were created by the early Rapa Nui people and are located all over the island.
The second...
September / October 2013
Liber Linteus - Mummified Language
Ancient artifacts are usually made of something durable, like stone, clay or preserved wood, to help them survive the centuries. One, however, is made of cloth, and is actually a book. The Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis (Latin for Linen Book of Zagreb) is...
November / December 2013
Rohonc Codex - Hungarian Enigma
The Voynich Manuscript, a booklet full of hand drawn images and undeciphered text, is probably the most famous of strange language documents, but it is not the only one. The Rohonc Codex is another work that has defied translation for centuries, despite...
May / June 2014
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