![]() In this case, the researchers were able to work out the Kushan meaning using parallel inscriptions in Bactrian carved into rocks found at Almosi Gorge and at Dašt-i Nāwur, in Afghanistan, in the 1960s. "The best-case scenario is to have a parallel text - a so-called bilingual or trilingual - that presents approximately the same meaning, but in two or three different scripts or languages," Bonmann said. ![]() In a study published July 12 in the journal Transactions of the Philological Society, Bonmann and her colleagues examined the newly discovered "bilingual" inscriptions and decoded the Kushan script using similar methods to those previously used to decipher other ancient languages. "Researchers have worked on this for decades, mostly in France and Russia, but they were met with little success," Eugen Hill, a professor of comparative linguistics at the University of Cologne who did not participate in the study, said in the video. Archeologists have discovered several dozen inscriptions since the late 1950s, mostly in present-day Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. Related: Cryptic 4,000-year-old writing system may finally be decipheredĬharacters carved into cave walls and painted onto ceramics, however, have survived across Central Asia and provide clues about the Kushan language. ![]()
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