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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4041658" data-attributes="member: 54707">You cannot solve the writing based upon the information provided in this thread.The writing is in an ancient language, because the tablet is ancient (or that is how it has been described).Therefore it will not transliterate directly into English or any present cipher, code, or crypt assuming one was used.You cannot even assume, because you don't know the language, that the symbols are phonetic. Or related in any way at all to modern languages.They could just as easily be pictographic. Or ideographic. Or alphanumerical, but they are not English and so any words formed, assuming these symbols do form words, will not be in English. And English letter frequency charts will be irrelevant.(There is one other possibility, that the words were added at some date later to or different in time than the graphic image. In that case they could be part of either a real ancient language, or a fake one. Of course the whole thing could be disinformation as well, but let's assume otherwise for sake of speculation at the moment.)In either case since you have no Rosetta stone and because you do not even know the language (assuming it is a language per se) and cannot decipher or decode it from the clues provided the script itself is not germane to the true mystery, except for one possibility which I will not mention but is not linguistically relevant.The translation therefore is not the mystery (though it could be tangentially related, it is in fact a deductive distraction - and an inductive one as well).The real mystery lies with the other aspects of the tablet, with the other elements of it's nature in relation to it's supposed meaning and indications given about the overall context.You also don't know where the fragments were discovered, how they were discovered, by whom, or why, so at this point you absolutely cannot draw any real contextually relevant information that would by association help to decipher anything other than what is obviously apparent.In other words the tablet is both a clue to what is relevant and is a device which by it's very nature dismisses those things which you cannot yet use to make any deductions about it's true nature. The map is not the rhetorical territory.Therefore the only real evidence at hand is the tablet itself.The tablet is itself.Think in that way.Dismiss at this point what you cannot yet know and instead concentrate on what is known.In other words you have to use what you do know, not what you don't know.It is resolvable in that fashion.</blockquote>

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