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Researchers have decoded more than half of the characters in the so-called Kushan script by comparing them with inscriptions in a known ancient language called Bactrian
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- Title
- Ancient ‘Unknown’ Script Is Finally Deciphered
- Authors
- Sascha Pare
- Word count
- 641 words
We know so little about the Bactrians, Greco Bactrians, Indo Greeks and Kushans, and it's likely to remain so. A guest in one of the podcasts I listen to talked about, after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, they get to watch via satellite their sites being vandalised, destroyed and looted. Crushing stuff.