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 ...

How was the great English playwright William Shakespeare influenced by ancient Greece, and how did he come to know about its ...

What were books like in ancient Greece and Rome? the oldest known writing dates to around 5000 BCE. It origins are mysterious ...

Decoding ancient scripts is a remarkable journey into humanity’s past, unearthing forgotten tales and cultures. The cryptic symbols, etched onto stone, parchment, or clay, often remain as the only ...

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 ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

It was like driving the Rockies and the Pacific Coast Highway at the same time. To our right, rugged, forested mountains touched a cloudless, bright blue sky. On our left, as the road rose and dipped ...

Nurtured by the alluvial planes of the Indus river, the Indus Valley hosted one of the world's oldest urban cultures. From ...