
Extinct language
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Oct 20, 2026
Lost Graves and Lost Bones, with Sam Kean
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28:56Sam KeanGUEST
So lost tastes, lost food, lost sounds and things like that.
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29:01Sam KeanGUEST
Whereas this one is a bit more tangible and, you know, actual lost objects, things like that, or even some lost languages, deciphering lost languages and stuff.
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29:12Sam KeanGUEST
I guess what really inspired me was that, you know, I love going to museums and just any type of museum, whether it's natural history or, you know, historical artifacts.
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29:22Sam KeanGUEST
I could spend hours just wandering around almost any museum.
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29:56Robert LambHOST
I'm always curious about the road from idea to completion with a project like this.
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30:02Robert LambHOST
Were there certain lost things you knew you were going to go out and research and discuss? And then were there any that just kind of emerged out of the research itself?
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30:11Sam KeanGUEST
Yeah, Lost Languages was one I definitely wanted to cover.
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30:14Sam KeanGUEST
So Egyptian hieroglyphs, Linear B. I just think the whole process is just fascinating, how they can read lost languages.