'Crowd-sourcing' website to decipher ancient writing

[dipsydoodle]

The Oxford academic trying to crack an ancient undeciphered writing system has set up a website to "crowd-source" help from the public.

Jacob Dahl was so overwhelmed by offers of help from BBC News website readers that he has made a website to harness their code-breaking skills.

Dr Dahl wants to decipher proto-Elamite texts on 5,000-year-old clay tablets.

Among those offering help is the grandson of one of the archaeologists who unearthed them over a century ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20066885

Website referred to here : http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/proto-elamite

Sounds like Linear B revisited.

edit to add ; anyone interested in Linear B go to Youtube and search A Very English Genius (part1) then go to part2 etc. Its a BBC documentary on the subject of Michael Ventris who cracked it.

[thelordofhell]

1. They need to decipher this..........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

[DavidDvorkin]

3. There may not be anything there to decipher

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_voynich_manuscript_the_book_nobody_can_read/

[tanyev]

2. Very cool.