How To Use Decipherment In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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We have very few photographs of the artist, so every one of them becomes precious and open to decipherment.
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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.
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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.
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This will expose additional detail and likely enable decipherment of previously illegible portions of the ancient documents.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Halperin begins his defense of historicism by admitting "my major preoccupation is with the accurate decipherment of historical documents
The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality
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The program dealt with the decipherment of a long-lost manuscript of Archimedes entitled ‘On the Method of Mechanical Theorems.’
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It was only with the discovery and decipherment of clay tablets from Mesopotamia that their existence was ‘re-discovered.’
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Animal entrails, for example, were believed to contain obscure messages from the gods, requiring the practice of haruspices for their decipherment.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Only a feat of brilliant decipherment by Jean-François Champollion, working in the 1820s, allowed us to understand ancient Egypt again in its own terms.
Beyond the Pharaohs
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Singh avoids the uncomfortable example of the Mayan script to which various cryptographic techniques were applied to no avail, until the linguistic insight of the Russian philologist Knorosov provided success in decipherment.
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Great and interesting light has been thrown on the history of this monarch and the transaction of his reign, by the decipherment of the cuneatic inscriptions on the rocks at Behistun. in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Nobel Prizes have recognized a number of the triumphs along the way, among them Watson, Crick and Wilkins 'decipherment of the helical structure of DNA and Roger Kornberg's uncovering of the workings of the enzyme RNA polymerase, which turns DNA into RNA.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 - Speed Read
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Don't imagine that decipherment is a dying art - it is still very much alive and kicking.
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The decipherment of the Egyptian script was underway.
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One might also be a little suspicious at the remarkable number of "ground-breaking discoveries" in the course of the decipherment.
Primary sources of Maya history - part five
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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.
Willful Misreadings and Aspersions at Contra James Wood
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It may even be true that some recent Maya epigraphers have at times been somewhat carried away in their boundless enthusiasm over the decipherment of yet another hieroglyphic symbol to add to the growing list of successful and verifiable readings.
Primary sources of Maya history - part five
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While most Maya scholars and researchers acknowledge the importance of the breakthrough in the decipherment of the Maya system of writing, not everyone is convinced that this achievement radically changes our conception of the ancient Maya.
Primary sources of Maya history - part five
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Already in the nineteenth century, the recovery and decipherment of writings from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia had caused an immense public stir.
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It takes virtually no account of all that scholars have been able to learn about Egypt since the decipherment of hieroglyphics.
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This was well before the discoveries which were used to argue a universal Stone Age for humanity, and before the decipherment of ancient scripts such as hieroglyphics and cuneiform.
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Not even the decipherment of hieroglyphics at the beginning of the 19th century, and the discovery that most of what the Egyptians had written consisted of spells, royal propaganda, and tax returns, could quite serve to frustrate the impulse.
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson; Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley; and Egyptian Dawn by Robert Temple