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Huge sections of their daily lives (and particularly why they came to abandon their cities) are still shrouded in mystery, but great strides have been made in deciphering their hieroglyphs and stelae (inscribed stone pillars).
The consequences may be disastrous, with readers forced to concentrate more on deciphering the words than considering their meaning, losing the thread of events.
The use of genetically engineered mouse models will likely play a major role in deciphering the function of a multitude of new genes revealed in the recently completed sequence of the mouse genome (Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium 2002).
The work of Jean Francois Champollion (1790-1832) in deciphering hieroglyphics from the Rosetta Stone was an astonishing accomplishment, for it enabled us to read the myriad writings of the ancient Egyptians on papyrus and in wall inscriptions and revealed an enormous amount of the knowledge we have today about their civilization, which lasted for about 2600 years.
See S. Cushing, Quantifier Meanings: A Study in the Dimensions of Semantic Competence , Amsterdam: North-Holland, if you are having difficulty deciphering the sentence to which this footnote is attached.