AI BriefingAI Engineer Claims to Have Deciphered Linear A
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Self-taught AI engineer Tom Di Mino claims to have deciphered Linear A, the Minoan civilization's script that had remained an unsolved problem for over 100 years.
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Self-taught AI engineer Tom Di Mino has claimed to have deciphered the Minoan civilization's Linear A, which has remained a challenge for linguists for over 100 years. His claim is currently awaiting review by linguistics experts at Rutgers and Cambridge University.
Di Mino believes Linear A is likely an extinct Semitic language, an ancestor of the biblical Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic. He has been studying Linear A for the past 7 years, and stated that he gained a decisive insight on May 22 of this year.
The core principle of the decipherment is as follows:
- He began his analysis based on 60 syllabic symbols shared with Linear B.
- He identified a recurring verb root in prayer-form inscriptions found at a specific sanctuary.
- Using the symbol 'na', which exists only in Linear A, he derived the root 'nawaya', meaning 'to dwell'.
If his claim turns out to be true, it is expected to become a monumental event in linguistics, comparable to when Michael Ventris deciphered Linear B in 1952.
