Data Science Applied to Discover Ancient Minoan-Indus Valley Trade Routes Implied by Common Weight Measures

Révész, Péter

doi:10.1145/3548785.3548804

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“…The Phoenician alphabet could also have been spread by traders [24]. The analysis of ancient weight measures shows that there was an ancient version of the Silk Road between Greece and India in the Bronze Age [25].…”

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Convolutional Neural Networks Analysis Reveals Three Possible Sources of Bronze Age Writings between Greece and India

Daggumati

Révész

2023

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This paper analyzes the relationships among eight ancient scripts from between Greece and India. We used convolutional neural networks combined with support vector machines to give a numerical rating of the similarity between pairs of signs (one sign from each of two different scripts). Two scripts that had a one-to-one matching of their signs were determined to be related. The result of the analysis is the finding of the following three groups, which are listed in chronological order: (1) Sumerian pictograms, the Indus Valley script, and the proto-Elamite script; (2) Cretan hieroglyphs and Linear B; and (3) the Phoenician, Greek, and Brahmi alphabets. Based on their geographic locations and times of appearance, Group (1) may originate from Mesopotamia in the early Bronze Age, Group (2) may originate from Europe in the middle Bronze Age, and Group (3) may originate from the Sinai Peninsula in the late Bronze Age.

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