He taught himself the ancient script, and made what he thought was a startling discovery in Crack Cave: that the glyphs on the lump spelled "B-M L H B-L," or, in his interpretation, "Beim La a Bel ...

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 world's earliest civilizations.

Rather, Enoch was specifically designed for the Dead Sea Scrolls, with only pictures and data expressly relevant to the time and scripts being studied (specific pattern recognition and machine ...

A few years ago, late in the fall of 2021, locals fishing Georgia's Bashplemi Lake in the municipality of Dmanisi came across a long-forgotten piece of history – a small stone tablet inscribed ...

Transliterating these documents could provide valuable insights into India's rich medieval history and scientific heritage.

Researchers have decoded more than half of the characters in the so-called "Kushan script" by comparing them with inscriptions in a known ancient language called Bactrian.

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 ...

Consider, for example, Lady Hao, one of 64 wives of Wu Ding, the ancient Chinese king. Undaunted by the competition, she became a military commander, in charge of 13,000 soldiers.

Experts used parallel texts to analyze and decipher the unknown Kushan script, according to the University of Cologne. Photograph: André Boutiere, 1967, courtesy of the Collège de France ...

Ancient Script Spurs Rethinking of Historic ‘Backwater’ At a temple site in the Republic of Georgia, letters carved in stone could change the way we see the development of writing.