The ancient Kushan script carved into rock in the Almosi Gorge, Tajikistan. Researchers have managed to partially decode an ancient script that has puzzled scholars for around 70 years.

Recent readings on inscriptions written in an ancient alphabet, the Proto-Sinaitic Script, may well provide proof of the ...

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 ...

The trouble with decoding. That’s a lot of money, but it’s a tough job. There exist over 5,000 artifacts in the script, but deciphering them won't be easy.

Ancient 'unknown' script finally deciphered 70 years after first being discovered. News. By Sascha Pare published 19 July 2023 Researchers have decoded more than half of the characters in the so ...

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 ...

This ancient script has remained unsolved for over a century In 1908, an archaeologist in Crete discovered a small clay disk bearing unknown symbols. Now known as the Phaistos disk, it remains a ...

Still, its stubborn script—seen in about 4,000 relics that were collected by the 1990s—continues to stump experts. What they have identified so far are more than 400 distinct signs which were ...

For 150 years, people have tried to decipher mysterious symbols written by an advanced civilization believed to rival ancient Egypt. Can a $1 million prize help crack the puzzle?