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

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

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

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 ...

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. Subscribe to read this story ...

SCIENTISTS are offering someone $1 million if they can solve a mystery from the Bronze Age. Researchers have long been trying to solve an ancient script from the Indus Valley Civilisation that existed ...

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A fish under a roof. A stick figure without a head. A series of lines that look like a garden rake. These symbols are part of an entirely undeciphered script from a sophisticated ancient civilization ...