A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Researchers have managed to decode an ancient script that scholars have been unable to understand for decades. In a study ...

Indiana Jones wannabes, your time has come. A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of one of the ...

Nurtured by the alluvial planes of the Indus river, the Indus Valley hosted one of the world's oldest urban cultures. From ...

The Latin alphabet is the most recognizable form of written language, whose history goes back to the eras of ancient Greek ...

For more than a century, scholars stared at the same strange marks and got almost nowhere. The signs belonged to Linear ...

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Deciphering a previously unknown script could unlock a better understanding of the ancient Kushan Empire of Central Asia. The unknown Kushan script was found in the 1950s, but only understood this ...

A team of early-career researchers at the University of Cologne has succeeded in decoding a script that has been puzzling scholars for over seventy years: the so-called ‘unknown Kushan script’. Over a ...

Researchers have decoded an ancient script dating back thousands of years to the Kushan Empire for the first time, nearly 70 years after it was first identified. It records a previously completely ...

Researchers use Minoan script clues to decode Mycenaean Linear B records, revealing new insights into ancient Bronze Age ...