decipherments
Translations of cryptograms
Decipherments are instances of decoding or figuring out something difficult to read or understand.
The word most often refers to the scholarly work of cracking ancient scripts: the decipherment of Linear B, the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Each successful decipherment unlocks a previously inaccessible written language.
Solving secret communications
- cryptanalysisStudy of breaking ciphers
- enigmaSomething hard to fathom
- ciphersEncoded messages or zeroes
- encryptionConverting data into code
Bletchley · Turing · keys · frequency · substitution · transposition · plaintext · cryptogram
Symbolic picture-based writing
- cuneiformStylus-impressed ancient script
- RosettaTrilingual Egyptian artifact
- inscriptionsWords carved into surfaces
- papyriAncient Egyptian writing material
epigraphy · stele · glyphs · tablets · palimpsest · manuscripts · pictographs · petroglyphs
Study of historical texts
- etymologyWord origin study
- semanticsStudy of linguistic meaning
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
- phoneticsStudy of speech sounds
lexicography · cognates · proto-language · reconstruction · grammar · syntax · translation · interpretation
Problems designed to challenge
- mysteriesUnexplained phenomena or events
- riddlesPuzzling questions or teasers
- cluesHints toward answers
- breakthroughsSudden significant advances
solutions · revelations · discoveries · insights · meanings · contexts · analysis · understanding
codebreaking
Solving secret communications
- cryptanalysisStudy of breaking ciphers
- enigmaSomething hard to fathom
- ciphersEncoded messages or zeroes
encryption · Bletchley · Turing · keys · frequency · substitution · transposition · plaintext · cryptogram · Navajo
hieroglyphics
Symbolic picture-based writing
- cuneiformStylus-impressed ancient script
- RosettaTrilingual Egyptian artifact
- inscriptionsWords carved into surfaces
papyri · epigraphy · stele · glyphs · tablets · palimpsest · manuscripts · pictographs · petroglyphs · runes
philology
Study of historical texts
- etymologyWord origin study
- semanticsStudy of linguistic meaning
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
phonetics · lexicography · cognates · proto-language · reconstruction · grammar · syntax · translation · interpretation · loanwords
puzzles
Problems designed to challenge
- mysteriesUnexplained phenomena or events
- riddlesPuzzling questions or teasers
- cluesHints toward answers
breakthroughs · solutions · revelations · discoveries · insights · meanings · contexts · analysis · understanding · unlocking
deciphermentsencryptions
Data converted to code
encodings · codings · cryptography · scrambling · concealment
deciphermentsobfuscations
Deliberate acts of confusion
concealments · mystifications · encodings · obscurations · confusions