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

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Ancient Greek records contain stories about Greek alphabet origins. Could the Greek alphabet actually have an Egyptian ...

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 ...

The Kushan Empire in Central Asia was one of the most influential states of the ancient world. A research team at the University of Cologne's Department of Linguistics has now deciphered a writing ...

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 ...

An ancient Greek custom of decorating tree branches might have inspired the modern-day decoration of the Christmas tree.

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 ...