What if we never found the Rosetta Stone and could not read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Could computers or AI decipher them today?

  • Random_Character_A@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No. Link between sign and meaning (or sound) can be arbitrary.

    If we knew that they were phonetic, we could get somewhere by comparing how human languages generally work, but even then we would need something to start with.

    I’m guessing pure pictographs are harder, even with advanced comparative analysis.