Decipherment

All inscriptions contain both scripts and langauages.Languages which were used as well as scripts have changed over time.To understand these scripts it is done through a process known as decipherment.

One of the famous stories of decipherment comes from Egypt where Rosetta is a town on the north coast.Here an inscribed stone was found which contained inscriptions in three different langauages and scripts.scholars who could read greek figured out that the names of kings and queens were inclosed in a little frame called cartouche.They then placed the greek and egyptian signs side by side and could read the inscription.