Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

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 ...

Ancient scripts like Linear A and Rongorongo are among the mysterious undeciphered languages that continue to puzzle ...

LHASA, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- In southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, the ancient Tibetan script, which dates back over 1,300 years, is now seamlessly integrated into modern digital life. Today, ...

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 ...

Demotic is the script used in Egypt from the 7th century B.C.E. to the 5th century C.E. A script to carry the language of trade, administration and everyday life, it is separate from the formal ...

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 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 ...

MANILA - With deliberate golden strokes, artist Taipan Lucero proudly brings an ancient script back to life in the hope of promoting an endangered but contentious part of Philippine heritage. Once ...