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 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 ...

Nurtured by the alluvial planes of the Indus river, the Indus Valley hosted one of the world's oldest urban cultures. From 3300 to 1700 BC, the Indus people built impressive cities like Mohenjo-daro ...

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 ...

Archaeologists discovered a basalt tablet about the size of a piece of paper bearing 60 unknown script characters expertly ...

SCIENTISTS are offering someone $1 million if they can solve a mystery from the Bronze Age. Researchers have long been trying to solve an ancient script from the Indus Valley Civilisation that existed ...

JAKARTA: Diaz Nawaksara grew up during the rise of the Internet and telecommunications. When the 30-year-old went to college, he decided to study information management, focusing on storing ...

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 ...