Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle

Tom Di Mino, a self-taught AI engineer and amateur linguist, claims to have deciphered Linear A, a 3,000-year-old Minoan writing system that has stumped experts for over a century. Di Mino proposes that Linear A maps to an extinct Semitic language related to Biblical Hebrew and Arabic, and his breakthrough came in May 2024 after analyzing prayer inscriptions that followed a consistent formula across multiple Cretan sites. His claims are currently under review by linguistics experts at Rutgers and Cambridge, with potential implications comparable to the decipherment of the related Linear B script in 1952.