For more than a century, scholars stared at the same strange marks and got almost nowhere. The signs belonged to Linear ...

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Indiana Jones wannabes, your time has come. A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of one of the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the world’s oldest evidence of human Cryptosporidium infection from Roman-era chamber pots in Bulgaria, and a French team claims to have deciphered much of the 4,000-year ...

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 ...

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 ...

Experts used parallel texts to analyze and decipher the unknown Kushan script, according to the University of Cologne. Photograph: André Boutiere, 1967, courtesy of the Collège de France, Archives, ...

EINSIEDELN, Switzerland — A librarian at this monastery dating from the 10th century leads a visitor beneath the vaulted ceilings of the archive past the skulls of two former abbots. He pushes aside ...