Computer automatically deciphers ancient language

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 13:28 in Paleontology & Archaeology

In his 2002 book Lost Languages, Andrew Robinson, then the literary editor of the London Times' higher-education supplement, declared that "successful archaeological decipherment has turned out to require a synthesis of logic and intuition … that computers do not (and presumably cannot) possess."

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