Omnilingual

Omnilingual is a sci-fi story by H. Beam Piper. as it focuses on archaeology on an alien culture. An expedition from Earth to Mars finds an abandoned city, the remnants of an innovative civilization that died out 50,000 years before. The scientists recover books and documents left behind and are perplexed by their contents. Archeologist Martha Dane decrypts a few words and the team then explores what seems to have been an academy in which the last few cultured Martians had their last say...