The process of figuring out the meaning of something that is written in code, unclear handwriting, or a foreign language.
From Old French 'decipher,' originally meaning 'to deprive of a cipher or code.' Combined with 'de-' (reverse) and 'cipher' (code), it entered English in the 16th century during the age of cryptography.
The Rosetta Stone was a deciphering breakthrough—when scholars finally cracked its three scripts in 1822, it unlocked thousands of years of Egyptian history that had been completely unreadable for 1,400 years.
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