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

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    1 year ago

    The question specified present technology, which is how I answered. I’d guess that an algorithm that can find a reasonable interpretation of any corpus of text in a reasonable time period exists, it’s just it hasn’t been made.

    For really small corpuses there might be more than one interpretation. The Voynich manuscript can probably only be read one way (or zero, but I’ve seen convincing arguments for 1).