A COMPUTATIONAL FIELD GUIDE
4,000 years
unread.
The marks remain silent.
Their patterns are beginning to speak.
12,910 observed sign occurrences.
A map of structure, not a manufactured translation.
01 — MARKS02 — CORPUS03 — PATTERNS04 — HYPOTHESES
FIELD NOTES / 16 SELECTED SIGNSREADING THE UNREAD
Catalogue IDs, not reconstructed glyphs.SCROLL TO ARRANGE ↓
ONE OBSERVED SEQUENCE / NORMALIZED ORDER
606catalogued sign IDs
3,219analytic inscription lines
2,082distinct complete strings
0claimed phonetic readings
THE QUESTION IS NOT “WHAT DOES IT SAY?”
Before we can read a script,
we can learn how it behaves.
Some signs open. Others close. Certain pairs return across objects and sites. This archive lets you inspect those observations—and the distance between a pattern and a meaning.
Follow the evidence ↗Every sign.
Its own story.
Explore frequencies, positions, neighbors, and competing role hypotheses.
Enter the sign atlas ↗02 / IN CONTEXTA sign is never
the whole inscription.
Move token by token through the surviving sequences.
Explore inscriptions ↗