A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first ...

For more than a century, scholars stared at the same strange marks and got almost nowhere. The signs belonged to Linear ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Researchers have managed to decode an ancient script that scholars have been unable to understand for decades. In a study ...

Researchers use Minoan script clues to decode Mycenaean Linear B records, revealing new insights into ancient Bronze Age ...

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 ...

Indiana Jones wannabes, your time has come. A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of one of the ...

A team of early-career researchers at the University of Cologne has succeeded in decoding a script that has been puzzling scholars for over seventy years: the so-called ‘unknown Kushan script’. Over a ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the world’s oldest evidence of human Cryptosporidium infection from Roman-era chamber pots in Bulgaria, and a French team claims to have deciphered much of the 4,000-year ...