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Codebreakers Episodes

  1.

    Egyptian Hieroglyphs

    How the Rosetta Stone became the key to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs

  2. The Indus and Rongorongo Scripts

    Two code breakers, Professor Asko Parpola and Dr Steven Fischer, discuss their work

  3. Maya Script

    How the Maya script was deciphered by a Soviet linguist who'd never set foot in Mexico

  4. Knossos and Linear B

    The deciphering of a Minoan script called Linear B

  5. Cuneiform

    The centuries of struggle to decode the world's oldest script