If solved
Minoan Palace Archives Read
The Linear A tablets of Crete can be read, which gives the Minoan language and the records of its palaces and towns.
Open in the interactive tree →It would need an independent anchor such as a bilingual inscription or a much larger corpus, plus tests that reject wrong readings. Most surviving tablets are accounts, so the first gain would be names, goods and places rather than literature.
What it brings
- Knowing what language the Minoans spoke
- Reading the economy of Bronze Age Crete from its own records
- A tested method for other short, unbilingual scripts