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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 (solved)
Linear B (solved)
Linear A (open)
The Indus script (open)
The Voynich manuscript (open)
Reading the Herculaneum scrolls (partial)

Part of Society.