The Cascajal Block, an example of Olmec writing that is roughly 3000 years old. | Jl FilpoC, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 4.0 The Olmec were an ancient Mexican civilization best known for the ...

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Then, towards the end of the fourth century AD, within a generation, the Egyptian scripts vanished. The last datable examples of ancient Egyptian writing are found on the island of Philae, where a ...

Silver cups give clues to ancient writing system. Now, French archaeologist Francois Desset and his team believe that they have partially deciphered the ancient script.They used eight silver cups ...

Script discovered carved in caves, marked on bowls, and found on clay pots in Central Asia has baffled linguists since it’s discovery more than 70 years ago.But this “unknown Kushan script ...

TEHRAN -- Examples of ancient Iranian scripts will be posted on the www.ahnavad.com website, which is to be launched in the near future, the Persian service of CHN reported on Friday. “Ahnavad is one ...

This ancient script has remained unsolved for over a century In 1908, an archaeologist in Crete discovered a small clay disk bearing unknown symbols. Now known as the Phaistos disk, it remains a ...

In the Comment 'Cracking the Indus script' (A. Robinson Nature 526, 499–501; 2015 ), the sentence about Bryan Wells's estimate of the number of Indus script signs has been revised to more ...

The script is meant to be read as symbols, not phonetically, Ms. Mukhopadhyay said. “To show ivory, for example, they simply used a tusk-like sign,” she said.