Editing Decipherment (section)

==Notable decipherers==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Name of scholar
!Script deciphered
!Date
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|[[Magnus Celsius]]
|[[Staveless runes|Staveless Runes]]
|1674
|-
|[[Jón Ólafsson of Grunnavík]]
|[[Cipher runes]]
|1740s
|-
|[[Jean-Jacques Barthélemy]]
|[[Palmyrene alphabet]]
|1754
|-
|[[Jean-Jacques Barthélemy]]
|[[Phoenician alphabet]]
|1758
|-
|[[Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy]]
|[[Pahlavi script]]
|1791
|-
|[[Jean-François Champollion]]
|[[Egyptian hieroglyphs|Egyptian Hieroglyphs]] ([[Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts|Decipherment]])
|1822
|-
|[[Georg Friedrich Grotefend]], [[Eugène Burnouf]], and [[Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet|Henry Rawlinson]]
|[[Old Persian Cuneiform]] ([[Decipherment of cuneiform|Decipherment]])
|1823
|-
|[[Enno Littmann]]<ref name=":12">{{Cite book |last1=Al-Jallad |first1=Ahmad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RI8cEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 |title=A Dictionary of the Safaitic Inscriptions |last2=Jaworska |first2=Karolina |date=2019 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-40042-9 |series= |location= |pages=3}}</ref>
|[[Safaitic|Safaitic script]]
|1901
|-
|[[Thomas Young (scientist)|Thomas Young]]
|[[Demotic (Egyptian)|Demotic script]]
|
|-
|[[Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez|Manuel Gómez-Moreno]]
|[[Northeastern Iberian script]]
|
|-
|[[James Prinsep]]
|[[Brahmi]], [[Kharosthi]]
|
|-
|[[Edward Hincks]]
|Mesopotamian [[Cuneiform]]
|
|-
|[[Bedřich Hrozný]]
|[[Hittite cuneiform|Hittite Cuneiform]]
|
|-
|[[Vilhelm Thomsen]]
|[[Old Turkic]]
|
|-
|[[George Smith (assyriologist)|George Smith]] and [[Samuel Birch (Egyptologist)|Samuel Birch]], et al.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lila.sns.it/mnamon/index.php?page=Scrittura&id=4&lang=en|title=Cypro-Syllabic}}</ref>
|[[Cypriot syllabary]]
|
|-
|[[Hans Bauer (semitist)|Hans Bauer]] and [[Édouard Paul Dhorme]]<ref>"Anatomy of a Decipherment", http://images.library.wisc.edu/WI/EFacs/transactions/WT1966/reference/wi.wt1966.adcorre.pdf"</ref>
|[[Ugaritic alphabet]]
|
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|[[Wang Yirong|Wáng Yìróng]], [[Liu E (writer)|Liú È]], [[Sun Yirang|Sūn Yíràng]], et al. 
|[[Oracle bone script|Oracle Bone script]]
|
|-
|[[Aleksei Ivanovich Ivanov]], [[Nikolai Aleksandrovich Nevsky]], et al.
|[[Tangut script]]
|
|-
|[[Michael Ventris]], [[John Chadwick]], and [[Alice Kober]]
|[[Linear B]]
|
|-
|[[Yuri Knorozov]] and [[Tatiana Proskouriakoff]], et al. 
|[[Maya script|Maya]]
|
|-
|[[Louis Félicien de Saulcy]]
|[[Libyco-Berber]] script (almost fully)
|
|-
|[[Jan-Olof Tjäder]]
|"Enlarged opening script" of [[Ravenna]] (variant of the [[Latin alphabet]])
|
|-
|[[Zaza Alexidze]]
|[[Caucasian Albanian alphabet]]
|
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|[[François Desset]]<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal |last1=Desset |first1=François |last2=Tabibzadeh |first2=Kambiz |last3=Kervran |first3=Matthieu |last4=Basello |first4=Gian Pietro |last5=Marchesi |first5=and Gianni |date=2022-07-01 |title=The Decipherment of Linear Elamite Writing |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/za-2022-0003/html |journal=Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie |language=en |volume=112 |issue=1 |pages=11–60 |doi=10.1515/za-2022-0003 |issn=1613-1150}}</ref>
|[[Linear Elamite]]
|2022
|}