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A self-taught engineer claims a crack in a century-old undeciphered script

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A self-taught engineer says Claude Code helped him crack Linear A, the Bronze Age Minoan script that stumped scholars for a century, arguing it encodes an extinct Semitic tongue, with Rutgers and Cambridge now reviewing the claim.

Reporting date: 2026-06-20 (not necessarily the event date)

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A self-taught engineer claims a crack in a century-old undeciphered script
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Reporting date: 2026-06-20
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-06-20-a-bronze-age-script-cracked
Claim: A self-taught engineer says Claude Code helped him crack Linear A, the Bronze Age Minoan script that stumped scholars for a century, arguing it encodes an extinct Semitic tongue, with Rutgers and Cambridge now reviewing the claim.
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- Welcome to June 20, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-june-20-2026
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