Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled.... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the very writing of a message sufficed to keep it from almost everybody.


Archaeological Decipherment: A Handbook (ed. 1974)


Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled.... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until...

Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled.... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until...

Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled.... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until...

Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled.... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until...