The men and woman who unlocked the long lost voices of the past
World Service,Β·5 episodes
The centuries of struggle to decode the world's oldest script
The deciphering of a Minoan script called Linear B
How the Maya script was deciphered by a Soviet linguist who'd never set foot in Mexico
Two code breakers, Professor Asko Parpola and Dr Steven Fischer, discuss their work
How the Rosetta Stone became the key to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs
