Plasma AI

Plasma AI is a research organization whose site hosts investigations into open problems, and this page is devoted to one of them: a proposed Semitic reading of Linear A, the undeciphered script of Bronze Age Crete. The page situates the work against existing scholarship, including Brent Davis’s recent Cambridge University Press study, and frames the decipherment as a claim to be tested rather than announced.

The core of the page is the evidence itself. It links to a GitHub repository, the kaphtor project, and walks through specific test cases such as Gordon’s problem and the IO Za 2 and HT 31 inscriptions. A corpus and accompanying tools are provided so that the reading can be checked against the actual Minoan material rather than accepted on the strength of the author’s assertions.

The intended audience is narrow: epigraphers, historical linguists, and dedicated amateurs with some background in Aegean scripts or Semitic languages. Readers without that grounding will struggle with the terminology and the fragmentary nature of the evidence, and the page does not attempt to simplify the argument for a general audience.

For those who want to engage seriously, the practical path is to read the overview, then work through the linked repository and the individual inscription analyses in sequence. Treat the Semitic reading as a hypothesis under evaluation, and compare it against Davis’s contrary assessment before forming a view.

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