The term has also been used to describe the analysis of the genetic code information encoded in DNA - see the Human Genome Project article for more on this.
He worked there until 1951.He, then, returned to his native state Bihar in 1952 to work as decipherment research scholar in the newly formed K.P. Jayaswal research Institute, Patna.
He became director of the School of Egyptology at Cairo, producing numerous very valuable works and pioneering the decipherment of Demotic, the simplified script of the later Egyptian periods.
John Chadwick (21 May 1920 – 24 November 1998) was an English linguist and classical scholar who, with Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, was most notable for the decipherment of Linear B.
He helped published Liu E's Tieyun Canggui (鐵雲藏龜), the first collection of oracle bones, and Sun Yirang's Qiwen Juli (契文舉例), the first work of decipherment of the oracle bone script.
Starting with the Troy and Heinrich Schliemann's excavations, the reader is told of accounts of excavations of major centers of the Hellenic world, including the story of Michael Ventris' decipherment of Linear B.
The similarity of dingir and tengri was noted as early as 1862 (i.e. during the early phase of the decipherment of the Sumerian language, before even the term "Sumerian" had been coined to refer to it), by George Rawlinson in his The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World (p. 78).
The German scholar Friedrich Eduard Schulz, who discovered the Urartian inscriptions of the Lake Van region in 1826, made copies of several cuneiform inscriptions at Tushpa, but made no attempt at decipherment.