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

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.

Instead, researchers turned to an online library of digitized ancient texts, analyzing one million Akkadian words written in cuneiform—a syllabic script and the oldest known writing system—on ...

Inscribed on clay tablets, these records were written in the earliest written form of Greek, a syllabic script called Linear B that dates to the Late Bronze Age (1400–1200 B.C.). Nakassis is using 3-D ...

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 ...

Every week, Rajesh PN Rao, a computer scientist, gets emails from people claiming they've cracked an ancient script that has stumped scholars for generations. These self-proclaimed codebreakers ...