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 ...

Some ancient writing systems cannot be deciphered. Can artificial intelligence help crack the codes of the past? Svenja ...

Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West's first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on ...

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

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

It’s an object that is small but mighty — and a remnant from a time when archrivals didn’t just get mad at each other. They got even. Known as a “curse tablet,” which was acquired five years ago by ...

The suggestion that ancient Greeks reached America before Columbus may seem far-fetched, but certain researchers think ...