Decipherment

Day 1What is Decipherment? Day 2De-cipher-ment Day 3How Ciphers Help with Decipherment Day 4What is Writing? Day 5Linguistics & Writing Day 5Handoutactivity Day 6Phonographic Writing Day 7Linear Orientation Day 8Review for Exam Day 11Frequency Day 12Distribution & Structure without Meaning Day 13Cuneiform Day 14Cuneiform Day 15Egyptian Hieroglyphs Day 16Egyptian Hieroglyphs Day 17The History of the Alphabet Day 19Linear B Day 22Etruscan & the Voynich Manuscript Day 23Finishing up Voynich; Indus Valley Script & Rongorongo Day 25Zapotec, Isthmian, and Olmec Scripts Day 25Handout: Zapotec, Isthmian, and Olmec Scriptsactivity Day 26Proto-Indo-European, the Vinča Script, and Working on Video Games Day 27A New Decipherment Day 27Supplementary Textactivity Day 28Cracking the Code Day 28Cracking the Code, continued