The Rosetta Stone allowed 19th century scholars to translate symbols left by an ancient civilization and thus decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics. But the symbols found on many other ...

The Indus script, from the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, remains undeciphered despite its use of boustrophedon writing, read alternately left to right and right to left. Featuring pictographic ...

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 - ...

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

More than 5,300 years ago, a civilization emerged along the lush basins of the Indus River in present-day northwest India and ...

Along the Indus River in what is now known as northwest India and Pakistan, a civilization emerged more than 5,300 years ago.

You don’t have to buy a lottery ticket to win a million dollars thanks to an offer from southern India's Tamil Nadu state, but there is a catch: you need to be able to decipher 5,300-year-old writing.

A statistical analysis reveals distinct patterns in ancient Indus symbols, and creates a hypothetical model for the unknown language. Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on ...

Scholars have recently question whether ancient Indus inscriptions code for language. American and Indian scientists used statistics to show that the 4,500-year-old Indus symbols' pattern follows that ...