| "This code, which includes certain ancient ciphers, begins as International Morse and increases in complexity as you move through the piece at the entrance and into the courtyard," notes Sanborn. "The copper, perforated by text, represents this 'paper,'" referring to the symbolic nature of the metallic sheets seamed between large stone slabs protruding from the ground. |  Image © Jim Gillogly |
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Morse Code is generally received in an audible tone, which makes interpretation of the short and long sound durations easily recognizable. One particular issue in determining a written code is its orientation. The obvious perception might yield readable results, but this does not exclude the possibility that the Morse could or should be viewed upside down or from a reflected surface. When dealing with a modified communication system such as this written code, the rules that apply to monodirectional audio simply vanish. |
The dots and dashes in Kryptos yield partial phrases and words. Digital is spelled dige tal; the second dot where the i should be is missing, rendering the character as an e [space]. This is a Morse misspelling rather than an English misspelling. Interpretation seems to be abscised in the middle of the last o with the first dash in the o missing. A space between the t and i in tisyour could represent the phrase t is your. These anomalies are intentional -- perhaps clues to the solution of other parts of the sculpture. The most readable orientation of the Morse Code in Kryptos has been interpreted as follows:
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| Morse code is a system of representing letters, numbers and punctuation marks by means of a code signal sent intermittently. It was developed by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail in 1835. It can easily be deciphered using a standard table of correlating dots, dashes, and characters. A complete reference table can be found in my Toolbox: Morse Table, which includes inverted character matching. |  Image © Jim Gillogly |
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Morse Code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Elonka: Kryptos - The Bird's Eye View
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