Chapter grammar — every dossier follows the same skeleton
- The Corpus
- The Key
- The Method
- The Breakthrough
- The Aftermath
The grammar makes cases comparable: each dossier lays out the surviving corpus, the possible key, the method applied to it, and the breakthrough — then weighs the aftermath, including what the reading changed and what it left open.
01 𓂀 The Rosetta MethodEgyptian hieroglyphs · Champollion, 1822 — a trilingual stone, a royal name in a cartouche, and the leap from picture to sound. Forthcoming
02 𒀀 The Cliff at BehistunCuneiform · Grotefend, Rawlinson & Hincks — a royal inscription 100 m up a cliff, in three languages, cracked over decades. Forthcoming
03 𐀀 Ventris's GridsLinear B · Michael Ventris, 1952 — an architect, not a classicist, proves the Bronze-Age Aegean wrote Greek. Forthcoming
04 ▢ Reading the RulersMaya glyphs · Yuri Knorozov and after — a phonetic-plus-logographic script read against Cold-War scorn. Forthcoming
05 𐘀 The Minoan WallLinear A · pronounceable through Linear B, unreadable without the language. Open file → 06 ▢ Is It Even Writing?The Indus script · thousands of texts, none longer than a line. Open file → 07 ▢ The Readers Who DiedRongorongo · the language survived; the readers did not. Open file → 08 ? The Cold DrawerClosing dossier — Phaistos, Cypro-Minoan, Proto-Elamite, the Voynich: why some cases may never close. Forthcoming
Toward the book
This series is declared complete at eight dossiers. On completion it moves to Naisu Press as a volume in the institute's imprint — same chapter grammar, same specimens, print-first typesetting via the Paged.js pipeline. Chapters published here remain open access; the book is the collected, revised edition.