# Scripts and the past

- kind: region

Writing systems nobody can read, and the ones that yielded. Decipherment is a problem with a clear verifier: a reading that predicts new texts.

## Problems

- [Egyptian hieroglyphs](/wiki/Problem:egyptian-hieroglyphs.md) (solved)
- [Linear B](/wiki/Problem:linear-b.md) (solved)
- [Linear A](/wiki/Problem:linear-a.md) (open)
- [The Indus script](/wiki/Problem:indus-script.md) (open)
- [The Voynich manuscript](/wiki/Problem:voynich-manuscript.md) (open)
- [Reading the Herculaneum scrolls](/wiki/Problem:herculaneum-scrolls.md) (partial)

Part of [Society](/wiki/Continent:society.md).

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