Legendary Undeciphered Texts That Even The Best Cryptographers Can't Solve!

from Neolithic tables containing the oldest known systems of writing to a series of letter scrawled in the back of a dead man's book some of the most legendary undeciphered coats and texts remain a challenged for even the world's best cryptographers code breakers and linguists yet unraveling these mysterious puzzles remains as important as ever since many of these enigmatic inscriptions could hold the keys to understanding civilizations that had long since faded into the pages of history here we feature 10 in the most fascinating undeciphered codes and inscriptions throughout history and the grounds of sugar Borough Hall in Staffordshire England since the 18th century monument known as the Shepherds monument which was commissioned by Thomas Ansem a member of the British Parliament and crafted sometime between 1748 1763 by Flemish gobbler Peter XI the monument contains a relief depicting a copy of Nicolas Parsons painting the Shepherd's of Arcadia and a ciphertext that has stumped historians and decoders for hundreds of years the mysterious inscription that has yet to be decoded is located beneath the relief and contains the letters O you o sv air Vivi framing these eight letters at a slightly lower level other letters D M so cryptic is the cipher text that it became a feature in the international bestseller the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Michael Baigent Richard Lee and Henry Lincoln and Dan Brown's historical thriller The Da Vinci Code both books presented the theory that Nicholas Pierson was a member of the secretive Priory of Sion and medieval Masonic Order and that is painting the shepherds of Arcadia contains deep esoteric messages hidden within it it is not clear whether the inscription will ever be decoded or whether it was ever intended to be whoever inscribed it must have known that the letters would last throughout the centuries and be viewed by civilizations to come it is possible that only a select few ever knew the purpose of the letters and what they for for hundreds of years linguists have been trying to decode the ancient hieroglyphic script of the Maya left behind and monument carvings painted pottery and drawn handmade bark paper books thankfully decipherment has been advancing at a rapid rate and significant progress is being made this will be a huge step forward for the deepening of understanding of the social political and historical aspects of Maya civilization for a long time many scholars believe that the script did not represent a language at all or that it wasn't a complete reading system and it was easy to see why the belief prevailed the writing is arguably one of the most visually striking writing systems of the world it is very complex with hundreds of unique signs or glyphs in the forms of humans animals supernatural objects and abstract designs the first major breakthrough in decipherment came during the 1950s when a Russian ethnologist proposed that the Mayan script was at least partially phonetic his ideas was not welcomed but he was eventually proved correct progress accelerated during the 1970s and 80s when more linguistics began to take an interest in the script and the scholars came to understand that it was in fact a fully functioning writing system in which it was possible to express unambiguously any sentence of the spoken language despite the progress much has remained to be decoded from the immense body of carvings and inscriptions that has languished for centuries in jungle ruins and museum closets during the 19th century ancient artifacts containing a set of itched symbols were discovered in the world-renowned Easter Island a small remote island located a few thousand miles off the west of South America and famous for the hundreds of giant monolithic anthropomorphic statues called moy the intricate designs appear to be glyphs for a form of writing but the meaning of the glyphs have never been deciphered some believe that decoding the mysterious writing could offer answers into what caused the collapse of the ancient Easter Island civilization their own gongo writing was for discovered by Eugene arid layer fryer and the Roman Catholic Church who went to Easter Island as a missionary in January the second in 1864 in an account of his visit he wrote of his discovery of 26 wooden tablets containing the unusual inscriptions they are regularly shaped wooden tablets were weathered burned are otherwise damaged when they were fined the glyphs were also found on the Chieftains staff a Birdman statue and two romero ornaments the glyphs were written in different lines that runs across the tablets the rongorongo images are shaped like humans animals plants and geometric forms deciphering the glyphs has proven difficult assuming that rongorongo is writing there are three barriers that make it difficult to decipher the limited number of texts the lack of illustrations and other contacts with which to understand them and perast the station of the gramophone language which is likely to be the language reflected in the tablets some believe that the rongorongo is not true writing but a prototype writing which is a set of symbols that convey information without containing any truly linguistic content while it remains unclear exactly what the rongorongo is intended to convey the discovery and inspection of the tablets remain an important key to understanding the past civilizations of Easter Island a 1961 archaeologists Nikolaev Lazar discovered what may be direct evidence of the earliest forms of writing in the world while conducting an archaeological excavation at an ear of excitin Romania the lasas team uncovered three small clay tablets containing indecipherable edgings now known as the two terrier tablets which were dated to 5500 BC there have been various interpretations of the meaning of the etchings on the tablets some believe the etchings are an early form of writing which others believe they are pictograms random scribbles religious symbols or symbols of ownership due to speculation that the tablets were found at a sacrificial burial site many believe that the symbols or of religious context overall analysis of the Tattaglia tablets has led to many interesting hypotheses about early human culture and the emergence of communication by writing when ancient artifacts may initially appear to answer many questions about human civilization in this instance it is clear that some finds ultimately leads to more questions than answers in 1908 an Italian archaeologist ventured into the ruins of fist oz an ancient Minoan Palace on the south coast of Crete in an underground temple depository among burnt bones dusts and ashes he found a remarkably intact golden hue disc the discovery is known as one of the most famous mysteries in archaeology the fist oz disc the physical disc is a large fired clear plate about 15 centimeters in diameter and one centimeter thick both sides of the disc are covered with a sparrow of strange stamped symbols circling clockwise towards the disc center the symbols are pictograms portraying images including a man walking attitude head a helmet and arrow manacles cats eagles and more and both Sir Arthur Evans discoverer of the Minoan capital gnosis in 1900 and Luigi premier attempted to translate the discs but were unsuccessful since that time no fewer than 26 notable attempts have been made to decipher the code there's presumed that the writing at this linear a a script unconnected to any known language but some scholar suggests it is syllabic writing related to various languages such as hit it-- who were a greek indo-european or a semitic language until the fist dose code can be cracked on the truth revealed the golden disc will continue to draw curious linguistics unleaded cryptographers and lovers of a good ancient mystery in 1912 a polish american book dealer named Wilfred my niche went to Rome on an acquisitions trip there he happened upon a trunk that contained a rare 15th century manuscript known as the Voynich manuscript since his appearance this document which is now under lock and key at the burner key Rare Book and Manuscript library at yield has been studied extensively has stumped even the most successful cryptographers and code breakers the author is unidentified as is the obscure language throughout the text even many of the illustrations remain in magmatic very little can be made of the cryptic language used throughout the text some words only appear in certain sections some letters only appear in certain places and words the repetition of wording is also peculiar and does not follow on any identifiable rhythm many experts believe this was a language constructed by the author to hide secret information nor does not follow any known code causing some to speculate that the book is nothing more than an elaborate hoax researchers continue to investigate the enigmatic text in the hope of finally revealing its secrets the disability or tablet was discovered by professor of prehistoric archaeology Georg Zamora others in 1983 and neolithic settlement in northern greece near the city of casa torria a group of people used to occupy the settlement 7,000 8,000 years ago the despair leo tablet was one of the many artifacts that were found in the area however the importance of the tablet lies in the fact that it has an unknown written text on it the wooden tablet was dated between the c12 period to have been made and 5200 60 BC making it significantly older than the written system used by the Sumerians the text on the tablet includes a type of engraved writing which probably consists of a form of writing that pre-existed linear b writing used by the Mycenaean Greeks as well as the tablets many others ceramic pieces were found that have also the same type of writing on the professor has suggested that this type of writing which has not yet been deciphered could be a form of communication including symbols representing the counting of possessions decoding the writing is going to be difficult if not impossible unless a new rosetta stone is found the discovery of an unidentified text and hungry has led to more than 200 years of attempts to determine who authored it and to decipher its contents many scholars have studied the text known as the rue honker codex in an effort to understand its meaning and to determine who rulers and when it was drafted therefore these efforts have been futile to date as the meaning and origin of the text still remain a mystery the rohan codex was discovered in Hungary in the 1800s it was believed to have been part of the personal library of can do stuff Barney before he donated his entire personal library to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences when the codex surfaced had initially appeared be from the medieval times however the text which appears to resemble all Hungarian script was completely indecipherable the mysterious text led to many to wonder what the ratings meant who ruled it and what purpose had served many of these questions remain to be answered as the author's has not yet been identified and the text has yet to be translated on December the 1st 1948 authorities were called to Somerton Beach in Adelaide South Australia a dead man's body had been found little did police realized that they were about to encounter waters no considered one of Australia's most profound mysteries with connections to the ancient world they found his cold body on the sand slumped on the base of a sea will despite the hot weather he wore and never pullover a nun suit jacket his carps revealed no obvious cause of death nobody knew who he was or where he had come from investigators were perplexed when they found what appeared to be a secret message stuffed in his treasure pocket the words to Mum should were printed on a rolled-up scrap of paper found deep in the unidentified man's pocket consulting lavery experts police find that the mysterious crab had been torn from a page of a rare the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as the investigation continued in 1948 a copy of the Ruby ATS was recovered bearing the tear marks that matched the scrap found on the body this was a very rare first edition book of ancient poems that had been placed in the back seat of an unlocked car which had been parked along a jetty a wicker tree before the body had been find the car owner turned the book into the police but requested to remain anonymous adding to the mysterious nature of the case under close inspection the rare copy revealed scrawled letters in the back cover grouped together in an unrecognizable language detectives determined it was a secret code and due to the tense times of the Cold War speculated that the Somerton man was a Soviet spy murdered by unknown enemies no governments or intelligence agencies have ever admitted knowing the man Ruby at code who was made public and many tried to decipher it in vain but it remains uncracked to this day the Danube Valley Civilisation is one of the oldest civilizations known in Europe and existed between 5500 and 3500 BC in the Balkans and covered a vast area in what is now northern Greece to Slovakia south to north and Croatia to Romania west-east during the height of the Danube Valley civilizations one of the more intriguing and hotly debated secrets of the Danube Valley civilizations is the supposed written language well some archaeologists have maintained that writing is actually just a series of geometric figures and symbols others have maintained that it has the features of our true reading system harold harmon and german linguistic and cultural scientists and leading specialists in ancient scripts and ancient languages supports the view that the damaged script is the oldest writing in the world the tablets that were found are dated to 5500 BC and the glyphs on the tablets according to Hermon are a form of language yet to be deciphered the symbols which are also called vinca symbols have been found in multiple archaeological sites throughout the danube valley areas in and pottery figurines spindles and other clay artifacts however the majority of Mesopotamian scholars reject Harmons proposal suggesting that the symbols on the tablets are just decoration this and despite the fact that there are approximately 700 different characters are in the same number of symbols used in Egyptian hieroglyphics

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Published: Wed Aug 21 2019