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

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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 ...

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 ...

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

A previously unknown ancient mask from southern Mexico contains an inscription that shows the language used there prior to the Maya civilization remains undecipherable, according to a new study by ...

French archaeologist François Desset says he has deciphered much of Linear Elamite, a rare 4,000-year-old Bronze Age script from ancient Iran. Using inscriptions on unprovenanced silver vessels, his ...