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For more than a century, scholars stared at the same strange marks and got almost nowhere. The signs belonged to Linear ...

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 ...

There’s a new language in town. Well, actually, it’s ancient, and experts can’t even read it yet. But they’re excited to find out more. Archaeologists discovered a basalt tablet about the size of a ...