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More than half of the 25 to 30 signs of the previously undeciphered Kushan script can now be read — 70 years after it was first discovered.
To decipher the script, the researchers used parallel inscriptions in Bactrian carved into the rocks containing the Kushan script. The team also evaluated a Gandhari-Bactrian-Kushan inscription found at Dašt-i Nāwur, Mount Quarabayu in Afghanistan, in the 1960s, in addition to writings found in caves and characters on bowls and clay pots from various Central Asian countries.recently made contact with Svenja Bonmann to gain deeper insights into the findings.In its prime, the Kushan empire covered much of what is now Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Northern India.
Despite several dozen, mostly short, inscriptions being known for decades, Bonnman explains that there have been numerous unsuccessful attempts to decipher the system through the years. "These were often amateurs without any professional linguistic background," she added.in Bochum a decade ago, the researcher was approached by Halfmann, who saw her admiring a replica of the undeciphered Issyk inscription, speculated to be in Kushan.
"Based on a combination of historical and linguistic knowledge, one must then make an educated guess on one or several likely languages possibly underlying the writing system," she said., or Vima Takto, referred to as the 'King of Kings', who reigned in the 1st century AD. The ruler's name appeared in both Bactrian parallel texts.
The title proved to be a good starting point, and using the Bactrian parallel text, the linguists were able to go over further character sequences and determine the phonetic values of individual characters. "I am extremely skeptical whether so-called artificial 'intelligence' will ever provide answers to major unsolved questions like, say, the 'Theory of Everything' in physics, the 'Millenium Prize Problems' in mathematics, or other unknown writing systems," she said.
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