Some ancient writing systems cannot be deciphered. Can artificial intelligence help crack the codes of the past? Svenja ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

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 ...

Ancient scripts like Linear A and Rongorongo are among the mysterious undeciphered languages that continue to puzzle ...

Ancient thinkers struggled to tell facts from falsehoods just like we do – and their strategies are still relevant today.

It’s an object that is small but mighty — and a remnant from a time when archrivals didn’t just get mad at each other. They got even. Known as a “curse tablet,” which was acquired five years ago by ...

The suggestion that ancient Greeks reached America before Columbus may seem far-fetched, but certain researchers think ...