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 ...

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-daro ...

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 using ...

GRAKLIANI, Georgia — Sophia Paatashvili, a third-year graduate student in archaeology at Ivane Javakashvili Tbilisi State University, was excavating an ancient temple at an Iron Age site called ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered what is thought to be the oldest known sentence written in the earliest alphabet — and the translation is a real chin-scratcher. "May this tusk root out the ...

So you wanna write a screenplay? It seems that people from all walks of life are busy working on movie scripts these days. This is not a bad thing. If Sept. 11 showed us anything, it was that the ...

Selma Hayek in the film 'Eternals' A Trinity College academic has played a pivotal role in translating Babylonian dialogue for new Marvel movie Eternals. The new superhero flick, starring Angelina ...

Researchers have decoded an ancient script dating back thousands of years to the Kushan Empire for the first time, nearly 70 years after it was first identified. It records a previously completely ...