A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural ...

The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is offering a $1 million bounty to experts who can successfully interpret the Indus Valley ...

While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient ...

To encourage the decipherment of the ancient Indus script, the government of Tamil Nadu, a state in southern India, announced a massive cash prize for anyone—scholar or amateur—who can crack ...

Researchers have long been trying to solve an ancient script from the Indus Valley Civilisation that existed between 5,300 and 3,300 years ago. The civilisation in the northwestern parts of South ...

An ancient script made up of signs and symbols by people from the Indus civilisation could give scientists a major insight into one of the world's earliest urban societies but no one has ...

Archaeologists working on the site of an old convent’s garden in Dijon, France, have discovered a strange group of Gallic graves and a children’s necropolis dating back over 2,000 years.

Ancient DNA analyses bring to life the 11,000-year intertwined genomic history of sheep and humans by Trinity College Dublin Vessel supported by two rams, 2600 to 2500 BCE, object number 1989.281.3.

The most advanced way that we communicate, through the written word, is something that animals simply can’t do at all. This ...