On September 20, 2024, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin expressed his gratitude to John Marshall, the late British archaeologist who headed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) when Daya Ram ...

Have you ever wondered how Australia's many Indigenous languages relate to one another and how far back the connections go?

The enigmatic Indus Valley civilization left behind a script that today's historians haven't yet deciphered. While amateur theories abound, scholars are increasingly relying on computer science to cra ...

SCIENTISTS are offering someone $1 million if they can solve a mystery from the Bronze Age. Researchers have long been trying ...

Codebreakers could win an £800,000 prize if they successfully translate a 5,000-year-old language previously undeciphered.

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Tamil Nadu has announced a $1 million prize for decoding the ancient Indus Valley script, sparking global interest among ...

Before the current written scripts, texts, and linguistic manuscripts, there were various oldest writing systems emerging ...

One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This ...

A writing system developed by one of the world’s earliest urban societies has given linguists nothing but grief since it was ...

Scientists have deciphered a Roman boundary stone inscribed with Greek text which was recently discovered in northern Israel, ...

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