“It’s like a time machine. So we can shake hands with these people from 2,000 years ago, and we can put them in time much better now,” said Professor Mladen Popović, University of Groningen, in ...

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 ...

For decades, no one could crack the code to a mysterious ancient script called Linear B. In her new book, Margalit Fox tells the story of the... How One Woman Nearly Deciphered A Mysterious Script ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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