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Two code breakers discuss their work.

Professor Asko Parpola from the Helsinki Institute, who started working on the Indus script - from the Indus Valley Civilisation, a Bronze Age civilisation now in present day Pakistan - as a hobby.

And Dr Steven Fischer from the Institute of Polynesian Languages in Auckland, who deciphered the rongorongo script of Easter Island. "When I first looked at it, they looked like little cartoons to me," he says.