12-12-2025, 02:45 PM
Hi and welcome!
Just a few comments about the assumptions you listed.
Ouch. Especially given that the word boundaries in the manuscript vary a lot, I don't think this is a reasonable assumption at all. Even if the cipher didn't jumble words, the scribe appeared to anyway.
Even if you don't understand the language the authors spoke, it's very likely that ChatGPT will. In transcription/translation tasks modern AIs appear quite competent. Not super professional, but certainly good enough to help with a well known historical language.
Just a few comments about the assumptions you listed.
(12-12-2025, 01:51 PM)mxv456 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.3. The words are words in the sense that they can, through translation, combination, compression, augmentation by auxiliary information, or some other process, be rendered into a language that someone at some time spoke. If there is a cipher, it did not jumble words by moving word boundaries or similar shenanigans.
Ouch. Especially given that the word boundaries in the manuscript vary a lot, I don't think this is a reasonable assumption at all. Even if the cipher didn't jumble words, the scribe appeared to anyway.
(12-12-2025, 01:51 PM)mxv456 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.6. There is no hope of me ever decrypting the text by myself since I have none of the necessary skills to actually understand any language that the authors spoke, even less the manuscript itself.
Even if you don't understand the language the authors spoke, it's very likely that ChatGPT will. In transcription/translation tasks modern AIs appear quite competent. Not super professional, but certainly good enough to help with a well known historical language.