Deciphering the King’s Script

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Another Rosetta Stone …

An inscription carved into a boulder high in the Almosi Gorge of Tajikistan’s Hissar Range has enabled philologists to decipher a writing system known as “the unknown script,” which was used during the centuries when the multiethnic Kushan Empire (ca. A.D. 50–250) held sway over Central Asia.

https://www.archaeology.org/slideshow/12149-kushan-unknown-script

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In “Conan” Kush is kind of an African place. I wonder if Howard took the name from that Asian empire.

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