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The Indus and Rongorongo Scripts
Two code breakers, Professor Asko Parpola and Dr Steven Fischer, discuss their work
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.
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