Had the boy deciphered and shared the lines of this far different Annie?
The language, so far as it has been deciphered, is "Asianic" and not Indo-European.
The monuments of many of his successors have been discovered by de Morgan and their inscriptions deciphered by v.
Books and documents were read aloud to him, while notes were made by him with eyes shut, and were afterwards deciphered and read aloud to him till he had mastered them.
In 1876 Sayce pointed out the resemblance between certain Hittite signs and characters in the lately deciphered Cypriote syllabary, and suggested that the comparison might lead to a beginning of decipherment; but the hope has proved vain.
