For all the progress humanity has made in deciphering its past, some ancient scripts remain stubbornly unreadable ... as announced by Chief Minister M K Stalin last month -— then the most formidable ...

The few that could be opened were philosophical texts written in ancient Greek. But most of the scrolls were so badly damaged, they were considered illegible. More recently, researchers managed to ...

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

Located in the Dahshur, it is an Ancient Egyptian royal graveyard housing a complex necropolis honouring the dead from the time. A site in which only a few pyramids actually remain, archaeologists ...

Famously, the Rosetta Stone, written in both Egyptian and Greek, made it possible to decode ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. There are as many as 676 unique symbols in Indus script, but a recent ...

After the earliest examples of ancient Greek writing in the syllabic Linear B script, the Greek alphabet was standardized around the 8th century ... of the Septuagint (the 3rd century BC Greek ...

NFL fans have been sent into overdrive after a 'leaked script' has been shared online. Kansas City Chiefs are bidding to win a third-successive Super Bowl as they take on the Philadelphia Eagles ...

And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Relatively little is known about the creators of the script ...

To encourage the decipherment of the ancient Indus script, the government of Tamil Nadu, a state in southern India, announced a massive cash prize for anyone—scholar or amateur—who can crack ...

Researchers have long been trying to solve an ancient script from the Indus Valley Civilisation that existed between 5,300 and 3,300 years ago. The civilisation in the northwestern parts of South ...

This unique degree programme offers training in an unparalleled range of ancient languages and their associated history, culture and textual traditions. Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin ...