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The first dead language to be recovered when its script was deciphered was not Egyptian (as might be supposed from popular and most technical accounts of decipherment), but Palmyrene; the year was 1754, and the scholar was Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
The first dead language to be recovered when its script was deciphered was not Egyptian (as might be supposed from popular and most technical accounts of decipherment), but Palmyrene; the year was 1754, and the scholar was Jean-Jacques Barthélemy