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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of early-career researchers at the University of Cologne has succeeded in decoding a script that has been puzzling scholars for over seventy years: the so-called ‘unknown Kushan script’. Over a ...

The field of archaeology has been revolutionized by the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). The most recent achievement has been the decoding of a 2,000-year-old scroll without the need for ...

A writing system developed by one of the world’s earliest urban societies has given linguists nothing but grief since it was first discovered on an unintelligible stone seal in the ancient city of ...

Suppose that you stumbled upon ancient scripts—at least, you are pretty sure that it is writing because the characters are laid out in rows, like modern writing, but the characters are completely ...

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, Archives, ...