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Édouard Dhorme announces a Phoenician decipherment starting from a supposed date formula

In Syria 25 Dhorme read seven strokes on tablet c as a year number and the preceding signs as Phoenician "in the year", then assigned values to about 75 signs; the reading was not adopted.

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Édouard Dhorme announces a Phoenician decipherment starting from a supposed date formula [Event EVT0DEDMB467YCV]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVT0DEDMB467YCV
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