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 partially deciphered the "unknown Kushan script" — a writing system that has puzzled linguists since it was first found in the 1950s. The researchers decoded the ancient text using ...

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 ...

More than 5,300 years ago, a civilization emerged along the lush basins of the Indus River in present-day northwest India and ...

A fish under a roof. A stick figure without a head. A series of lines that look like a garden rake. These symbols are part of an entirely undeciphered script from a sophisticated ancient civilization ...

LHASA — In Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region, the ancient Tibetan script, which dates back over 1,300 years, is now ...

In 1908, an archaeologist in Crete discovered a small clay disk bearing unknown symbols. Now known as the Phaistos disk, it remains a modern enigma. The Phaistos disk from circa 1700 B.C. The signs ...

The ancient cities of the Indus Valley belonged to the greatest civilization the world may never know. Since the 1920s, dozens of archaeological expeditions have unearthed traces of a 4,500-year-old ...

Researchers have decoded more than half of the characters in the so-called "Kushan script" by comparing them with inscriptions in a known ancient language called Bactrian. When you purchase through ...