Ancient scrolls, manuscripts, tablets with mysterious records, which scientists are trying to decipher, have been preserved in the world for a long time. But in vain
Historians and linguists have been trying for many years to find codes for the inscriptions left by our ancestors on stone, wood, parchment, birch bark. It seems that the icons are simple - lines, sticks, dots, images of animals or the likeness of a person. But what do they mean? Unclear. Complex signs also cannot be deciphered - on the Sumerian tablets, in the Mayan letters, in the Voynich manuscript, on the Fest disc. Hundreds of volumes of research are devoted to finding the meaning of what is stated in these historical documents. And today scientists only have to hope for the future reading of ancient texts with the help of some new technologies like perfect electronic translators.
Scientists read the Aztec Codex Vaticanus and learned, for example, that once upon a time there was a certain “first world period” on Earth, or the “Sun of Water”, when giant people lived. It is possible that other undeciphered messages of ancestors also tell about the different stages of the development of earthly civilization.
Sometimes the keys to ancient knowledge are found. This happened, for example, when decoding ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Rosetta Stone kept in the British Museum came to the aid of linguists. He was found in 1799 in Egypt near the town of Rosetta (now Rashid), not far from Alexandria. The granite slab embossed on it with three texts of the same meaning in the ancient Egyptian and ancient Greek languages was well known to linguists, and the comparison of the texts served as a starting point for deciphering the Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Another key for the Slavic writing was the so-called Veles's book, which was written before, some experts believe, as the Slavs had Glagolitic and Cyrillic.
This “book” is made of wooden planks 38x22x0.5 cm with a hole for fastening with a belt. They were found in 1919 on a princely estate near Kharkov in a plundered library. The text on the tablets was scratched with an awl in incomprehensible letters. Only later did the researchers establish that Veles's Book was written in a special alphabet, which is a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet with some outlines of individual letters that are not characteristic of either the Cyrillic or the Greek alphabet. This alphabet, known only from a copy of one tablet and the descriptions that have come down to us, is called by some researchers in (f) the forestry. However, the very existence of the pre-Cyrillic script - the "proto-Cyrillic", as well as the "protoglagolitic" was studied by scientists, and no convincing facts about the presence of such a script were found. But the book played its role in deciphering the ancient Slavic texts.
And to what other letters the key was not found?
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Forgotten Indus Civilization Tablet. What kind of creature?
The British John and William Brighton built the East Indian Railroad between Karachi and Lahore (now Pakistani territory) in 1856. They needed material for filling the track, and local residents suggested a way out. Near the village of Harappa, there was a huge hill that hid the remains of ancient brick buildings. The builders put tens of thousands of these bricks into bedding, and it never occurred to anyone that these bricks are more than four thousand years old.
Pages from the Vaticanus Codex.
From this tragicomic episode, the discovery of a highly developed civilization of the Indus River Valley began - one of the most mysterious in world history. She was considered one of the three most ancient civilizations of mankind, along with the ancient Egyptian and Sumerian.
Until now, Indian hieroglyphs on carved seals, fragments of pottery and tablets remain undeciphered. More than 500 different signs have been identified, and therefore, the Indian script cannot be alphabetic, since the human voice is not able to reproduce such a number of sounds. They tried to find a connection with the writing of the ancient Sumerians and even with the mysterious writings of Easter Island. In vain.
62 signs of Cascahal
In Mexico, a stone panel was found with symbols that, according to experts, represent one of the oldest scripts in the Western Hemisphere. Found in the Mexican state of Veracruz, the monument belongs to the Olmec culture, which flourished between 1200 and 400. BC.
Archaeologists believe that the monument, dubbed the "panel from Kaskahal", was created around 900 BC. e. The slab weighs 12 kilograms and measures 34 centimeters in length, 21 in width and 13 in thickness. 62 signs are carved on it, some of them occur up to four times. It is hardly possible to read the panel unequivocally without additional finds.
800 hieroglyphs of Easter Island
Rongo-rongo is the name given to wooden plaques with hieroglyphic letters of the inhabitants of Easter Island. There are 800 hieroglyphs in total, they are partly symbolic, partly geometric. Almost all of the tablets mysteriously disappeared after 1864.
The famous traveler Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay was interested in the letters of Easter Island. He managed to find two tables, which are now in the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Today, only 25 plaques have survived in museums around the world. Almost 140 years have passed since 1868, when the Tahitian bishop Tepano Jaussen, who first became interested in reading the tables, received a fragment of one of them. And the scientists of the world can not read what is written on the "mysterious pieces of wood."
SPECIALISTS 'OPINIONS
Alexander KOLTYPIN, President of the Society for the Study of the Secrets and Mysteries of the Earth, Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences:
- I can only assume that the ancient manuscripts, for which the code has not yet been found, may contain descriptions of other civilizations that existed before us, which were destroyed by global catastrophes. After all, we find references to cataclysms in the oldest Aztec monument "Codex Vaticanus", in the sacred book of ancient Indians "Purana", in the Talmud. Yes, and the Bible contains information about the periodic destruction of all life on Earth. Plato wrote about the repeated death of people from fire and water in his works. It can be assumed that once, in prehistoric times, there were powerful states unknown to us and numerous peoples, which, quite possibly, reached a very high level of development. With their perfection, they angered the Creator of the Universe, for which they were punished by catastrophes. And the letters, or, as they can be called in another way,The “signposts” that we cannot read today remained as reminders of our ancestors.
Historian, writer Felix ELDEMUROV:
- Deciphering ancient signs gives the broadest reason for speculation. If we take the signs of writing on the same Fest disc, then thousands of hypotheses have been proposed. They even suggested a way to read it in Russian. It turned out to be complete rubbish. Not knowing the language and written traditions, not knowing what kind of civilization it was - either Cretan, or Greek, or Malaysian, it is impossible to understand what the ancestors wanted to convey to us. Therefore, the information can be considered completely lost.
What else will we never read?
LETTER OF TROYAN (middle II millennium BC) - incomprehensible signs on the vessels from Troy, discovered by the expedition of Heinrich Schliemann.
BIBLE LETTER (middle of the 2nd millennium BC) - an undeciphered writing system with about 100 characters. Discovered in the city of Byblos in Phenicia. It has been deciphered since 1945.
THE CYPRUS-MINOUS LETTER (XV - XII centuries BC) - consisted of 80 characters. The ancient inhabitants of the island of Cyprus wrote on it.
KIPU INKOV (I - first half of the II millennium AD) - writing of an Indian tribe. Kipu consisted of over one and a half thousand characters. It was a complex rope weave and knots made of camel wool or cotton. Each knot of a certain color meant a word, a number, or perhaps a note.