What we still can't read

[Ray Moscow]

This might fit better into a history forum, if we had one, but it fits here, too:

Decoding antiquity: Eight scripts that still can't be read (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227106.000-decoding-antiquity-eight-scripts-that-still-cant-be-read.html?full=true)

Some of these I knew about, and some not.

It's sort of amazing that Etruscan is still on that list.

[Worldtraveller]

That's pretty cool. I would think by now we would have some clue about languages that had been around so long. I guess we need a few more Rosetta stones, huh?

[Puck]

I like that there are still things to be discovered and teased out for future generations. Why should we get all the fun? ')

[Berthold]

Vinca (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin%C4%8Da_signs) would surely merit mention.

[Preno]

Also Iberian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_language).

[Barbarian]

This might fit better into a history forum, if we had one, but it fits here, too:

Decoding antiquity: Eight scripts that still can't be read (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227106.000-decoding-antiquity-eight-scripts-that-still-cant-be-read.html?full=true)

Some of these I knew about, and some not.

It's sort of amazing that Etruscan is still on that list.Emperor Claudius I is alleged to have compiled an Etruscan/Latin dictionary (in some versions: a dictionary and an explanatory grammar), which is unfortunately lost to us. I would not be surprised if researchers did this :bang: every time they think about this loss. Villa of the Papyri (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_of_the_Papyri) is pretty much our last hope to find it.

[Garrett]

Emperor Claudius I is alleged to have compiled an Etruscan/Latin dictionary (in some versions: a dictionary and an explanatory grammar), which is unfortunately lost to us.
I'm worried about my mind, since that sentence led me to this
http://rosenblumtv.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/cleopatrav3.jpg

which led to this
http://hss.fullerton.edu/comparative/over_world_protests_files/image003.jpghttp://www.moonbattery.com/archives/buddha-statue-post-taliban.jpg

which led to this
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/03_02/saddamstatueDM1903_468x361.jpg