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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A series of lines that look like a garden rake. These symbols are part of an entirely undeciphered script from a sophisticated ancient civilization thousands of years old. And they remain an ...

And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Relatively little is known about the creators of the script ...

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 ...

Photo: Shutterstock Hindu nationalists argue that the Indus script is related to Sanskrit, the ancient language of Hindu scriptures. This was the language of the Aryans, who brought both Hinduism ...