Cracking the Lost Archive: Decipherment

When the archive outlives its readers: the British Museum's Rosetta session, TED-Ed on Rosetta and the Indus script race, Champollion and Young, Ventris' own 1952 radio audio on Linear B, and Rongorongo — the Easter Island script still refusing to speak.

Playlist by @language_archive_docs

10 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. The Rosetta Stone and what it actually says with Ilona Regulski | Curator's Corner S7 Ep7 — The British Museum
2. Why was the Rosetta Stone so important? - Franziska Naether — TED-Ed
3. The race to decode a mysterious language - Susan Lupack — TED-Ed
4. The stone that taught us how to read hieroglyphics — Louped
5. How Did We Really Crack The Rosetta Stone? — History Hit
6. Decoding the Rosetta Stone (corrected version) — Smarthistory
7. Decoding Egyptian hieroglyphs (the Rosetta Stone, Champollion, and Young) — Voices of Ancient Egypt
8. (AUDIO) Michael Ventris talking about the decipherment of Linear B (1st July 1952, BBC Radio) — R2D2esrepublicano
9. Professor Geoffrey Horrocks on The Decipherment of Linear B (part one) — Cambridge University Press
10. Rongorongo: The Hieroglyphs From Easter Island That Nobody Can Read — Wisdom Craft