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What does decipherment mean?

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Noun
  1. The analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost.
  2. Decryption.
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The decipherment of their script has been the greatest achievement of recent years.
Using a small decryption exponent, d, has the advantage of allowing rapid decipherment.
We have very few photographs of the artist, so every one of them becomes precious and open to decipherment.
The decipherment of Linear B was a sheer triumph of methodical cryptology, again based on the correct hunch that the hidden language was Greek.
In regard to the history of these monarchies, much light has been obtained from the decipherment of the cuneiform inscriptions.
Already in the nineteenth century, the recovery and decipherment of writings from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia had caused an immense public stir.

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