Starting in the the 1950s, archaeologists conducting excavations in central Asia have discovered several dozen inscriptions in a mysterious script. The writing system was coined “ecriture inconnue” in ...

Experts used parallel texts to analyze and decipher the unknown Kushan script, according to the University of Cologne. Photograph: André Boutiere, 1967, courtesy of the Collège de France, Archives, ...

When archaeologists on a dig in southern Portugal last year flipped over a heavy chunk of slate and saw writing not used for more than 2,500 years, they were elated. The enigmatic pattern of inscribed ...

Israeli archaeologists have found an ancient comb dating back some 3,700 years and bearing what is likely the oldest known full sentence in Canaanite alphabetical script, experts have said. The ...

The government of Tamil Nadu, a state in India, has announced a $1 million reward for anyone who can successfully decipher the Indus script, one of the greatest unsolved linguistic mysteries of the ...

Experts in Marathi's "Modi" script are actively transliterating historical documents from the Nizam rule in various offices to identify Kunbis in Marathwada. This effort seeks to encourage the ...

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Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy will shortly convene a meeting of experts to decide on standardisation of Tulu script. "We have script that Praveenraj S Rao of NCLC has developed and one developed by G ...

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Jan 29 (PTI) Experts in the "Modi" script of Marathi are transliterating Nizam-era documents from various offices and departments to find records of Kunbis in Marathwada to ...