Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s recent announcement of a $1million prize for anyone deciphering the script of the Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) has renewed popular interest in the language ...

Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted onto 3,000-year-old tablets. Now, Middle East scholars can use ...

Middle Eastern scholars can now use artificial intelligence to identify and copy cuneiform characters from tablet photos, allowing them to read complicated scripts easily. Researchers from Cornell ...