With any luck, the incentive will prove as successful as the Vesuvius Challenge, which was launched in 2023 and offered similar rewards to anyone who could reveal the ancient script on a series of ...

Eventually, Farritor's model found a formation of letters which made up the word "porphyras," which means purple in the ancient script. Farritor was awarded $40,000 for discovering the first word.

The chief minister of Tamil Nadu, a state in India, announced a prize of $1 million for anyone who can decipher the ancient ...

The old is typically replaced by the new; but, a revitalisation of Indigenous languages and ancient scripts amongst the young reveals that the past says more about Filipinos than what was written.