language barrier

There are various culture and languages around the world. Because of such diversity, different groups of people living in different areas do not know other groups of people's language. People living in current society also have no ideas about ancient languages if the language has changed a lot or even has been extinct.

In the chapter 5 of "The Code Book",cryptographers cooperate with archeologers working on abstruse symbols, which represents different meanings in an ancient language. It is very difficult to figure out the exact meaning of each symbols without any knowledge about the type of language.

Based on the place, where archeologer unearth the materials with those symbols on it, people who are proficient in the language will start work, like comparing those language to other language which used near the discovery place.

According to "The Code Book", I found cryptology relates to many other subjects such as language, math, archeology, geography,physics, chemistry and so on.

Because of combination of various fields, cryptology seems like whimsical riddle, which strongly incites people's curiosity.