People
625 people in 95 mysteries
Researchers, witnesses, makers and the missing: everyone the mysteries' records name, with what they did in each.
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Marcelle Duchesne-GuilleminBelgian musicologist who proposed a melodic reading of h.6 (1975, 1980, 1984) and explained its repeated syllables by the tablet's spiral la
MGHurrian songs of Ugarit
Margherita GuarducciEpigraphist; editor of Inscriptiones Creticae, including the Praisos texts · 1902–1999
Maria ReicheMathematician; documented and protected the lines, proposed the calendar reading · 1903–1998
MGNazca Lines
Marija GimbutasLithuanian-American archaeologist who proposed the "Old European script" as the sacred writing of a goddess-centred Neolithic Europe · 1921–
MLMartin Litchfield WestBritish classicist whose 1994 article read the Hurrian texts as melody on a descending scale. · 1937–2015
MPHurrian songs of Ugarit
Massimo PallottinoEtruscologist; editor of TLE and champion of the combinatory method · 1909–1995
MDEtruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated
Michael D. CoeMesoamericanist (Yale); co-author of the 2006 paper; critic of the Isthmian decipherment · 1929–2019
Cascajal block and Isthmian writing