British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchased some ancient stones with mysterious inscriptions on them at a flea market in ...

In this week’s round up brought to us by Script magazine, learn key secrets from A-List screenwriters for writing ...

Cuneiform as a robust writing tradition endured 3,000 years. The script—not itself a language—was used by scribes of multiple cultures over that time to write a number of languages other than ...

For over a century, experts - linguists, scientists and archaeologists - have tried to crack the Indus script. Theories have ...

A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural ...

The enigmatic Indus Valley civilization left behind a script that today's historians haven't yet deciphered. While amateur theories abound, scholars are increasingly relying on computer science to cra ...

If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be a mystery.

To decipher a script, the following subproblems have to be solved in order, Italian philologist Fabio Tamburini wrote in 2023 (Decipherment of Lost Ancient Scripts as Combinatorial Optimisation using ...