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Codebreakers

The men and woman who unlocked the long lost voices of the past

World Service,5 episodes

Episodes

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Cuneiform
The centuries of struggle to decode the world's oldest script
19 Jun 1997,13 mins
Knossos and Linear B
The deciphering of a Minoan script called Linear B
20 Jun 1997,13 mins
Maya Script
How the Maya script was deciphered by a Soviet linguist who'd never set foot in Mexico
20 Jun 1997,13 mins
The Indus and Rongorongo Scripts
Two code breakers, Professor Asko Parpola and Dr Steven Fischer, discuss their work
25 Jun 1997,13 mins
Egyptian Hieroglyphs
How the Rosetta Stone became the key to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs
27 Jun 1997,13 mins