It was the key to deciphering Greek
You see, we knew what these hieroglyph things were, all very lovely, and next to some was some dodgy text, so they assumed 'oh, that must be the same shit as the hierogylphs, just differently written, it all looks a bit Egypt-y anyway.' So they went about turning that into words, all very easy, and then they spend the next 40 years using right proper nouns from the written Egyptian to try and decode all that Greek mumbo jumbo that nobody knew anything about.

Science.
(Frozen_Banana Shaved against the grain; thoroughly unrewarding., Tue 8 Mar 2011, 7:17, 1 reply)

science indeed

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 20:15, closed)