[Article] Glyph Breaker?

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The comparison with Egyptian hieroglyphics, cuneiform and Linear B is of not much help to us. There were many samples of those texts, obtained from many archaeological sites. They were the writing of known civilisations, and the writing from all these sites was generally consistent. But we do not have this with the VMS. We do not know for definite in which country the manuscript was written. We cannot say whether the VMS is in a known language, is in some sort of cypher, or is in some sort of shorthand, or whether it was some sort of private folly of some private individual. Statistical analysis of the text has failed to say which of these is the more likely. If Jean-François Champollion, Henry Rawlinson or Michael Ventris were alive today they would be just as baffled as the rest of us.