decipherment

How To Use decipherment In A Sentence

• Now the two are once again sundered from each other, and the literary fact, like the other objects that make up our social reality, cries out for commentary, for interpretation, for decipherment, for diagnosis. 2009 March 02 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
• As the breakthrough of recent years in the decipherment of Mayan glyphs reminds us, there are secrets in the ‘new-found’ land of America still to be unearthed.
• We have very few photographs of the artist, so every one of them becomes precious and open to decipherment.
• Maya hieroglyphic texts use a set vocabulary of expressions to refer to altars and pedestals; most of these terms continue to frustrate firm phonetic decipherment.
• But because the Greek version could be read without difficulty, it served as an invaluable prompt to the decipherment of the cursive and the hieroglyphic versions.
• This will expose additional detail and likely enable decipherment of previously illegible portions of the ancient documents.
• He used the hieroglyphic inscriptions on the fallen obelisk which he removed from Philae and the Greek text on its pedestal to further the decipherment of hieroglyphs by his recognition of the name Cleopatra.
• While it is true, as critics of the Maya hieroglyphic decipherment like to point out, that the extant records deal almost exclusively with the aristocratic levels of society, we can nevertheless learn a great deal about significant social and cultural changes that must have affected the lives of Maya commoners. Primary sources of Maya history - part five
• Breakthroughs in decipherment seem to require broad knowledge and lateral thinking, as well as a logical, linguistically trained mind -- and this combination is more often found in "eccentrics" than in conventional scholars. Conversations: A Singularly Human Pursuit
• There is no doubt that Maya history really begins to unfold with the ongoing decipherment of the Maya script. Primary sources of Maya history - part five