A picture of the inscriptions recently found on a rock face in Tajikistan. Researchers have partially deciphered the "unknown Kushan script" — a writing system that has puzzled linguists since it was ...

Researchers have managed to decode an ancient script that scholars have been unable to understand for decades. In a study published in the journal Transactions of the Philological Society, a team of ...

Ancient scripts like Linear A and Rongorongo are among the mysterious undeciphered languages that continue to puzzle ...

The civilisation in the northwestern parts of South Asia existed between 2600 BCE and 1900 BCE covering much of modern-day Pakistan, northwestern India and northeast Afghanistan. An ancient script ...

A tantalizing $1 million prize has been announced for anyone who can crack one of history’s most elusive puzzles: the Indus ...

Nurtured by the alluvial planes of the Indus river, the Indus Valley hosted one of the world's oldest urban cultures. From 3300 to 1700 BC, the Indus people built impressive cities like Mohenjo-daro ...

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 ...

When archaeologists on a dig in southern Portugal last year flipped over a heavy chunk of slate and saw writing not used for more than 2,500 years, they were elated. The enigmatic pattern of inscribed ...

MANILA - With deliberate golden strokes, artist Taipan Lucero proudly brings an ancient script back to life in the hope of promoting an endangered but contentious part of Philippine heritage. Once ...

SCIENTISTS are offering someone $1 million if they can solve a mystery from the Bronze Age. Researchers have long been trying to solve an ancient script from the Indus Valley Civilisation that existed ...