Ancient Messages That Took Centuries To Decode

Subscribe and chill with me while I explain the universe one strange fact at a time. 00:00 The Rosetta Stone That Finally Decoded Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs 02:32 The Maya Writing System That Archaeologists Slowly Learned to Read 04:57 The Ancient Ugaritic Alphabet That Helped Reveal a Lost Civilization 07:16 The Behistun Inscription That Helped Decipher Ancient Persian Cuneiform 09:25 The Ancient Cuneiform Tablets That Revealed the Epic of Gilgamesh 11:49 The Rongorongo Script That Nobody Has Ever Fully Deciphered 14:16 The Mysterious Phaistos Disc That Nobody Has Been Able to Read 16:25 The Hittite Tablets That Revealed a Civilization Lost for Centuries 18:28 The Dead Sea Scrolls That Took Decades of Work to Reconstruct and Understand 20:48 The Ancient Etruscan Language That Took Centuries to Partially Understand