Tag: Archaeology

  • Decoding ancient sphinx’s mysterious message

    Decoding ancient sphinx’s mysterious message

    Nebraska interdisciplinary scholar Peter Revesz has a unique skill set, one that helped him solve a mystery that had puzzled experts for nearly two centuries.   Drawing on an interest in ancient Greece and a Hungarian childhood, Revesz, a computational linguist, deciphered a short poem at the base of an ancient bronze sphinx. His discovery, covered…