Iron implements found in Tamil Nadu indicate that the Iron Age began here 5,300 years ago. Politicizing this fact does a ...

As political extremism, identity tensions, and migration concerns intensify, the Cambridge Festival (March 19 – April 4) ...

The Indus Valley Civilization is one of the world's oldest urban societies and is still mysterious, attracting scholars and enthusiasts to uncover its secrets. Among all its mysteries, perhaps the ...

MUCH work has been done during recent years in the decipherment and elucidation of ancient Babylonian mathematical texts, and most of all by Dr. Neugebauer, the editor of this volume. It is not ...

The need for secret communications arose very early in civilization. It progressed due to the “intellectual arms race” between codemakers and codebreakers, both being linguistic alchemists capable of ...

The Indus Valley Civilization's script remains undeciphered despite scholarly efforts and modern AI attempts. Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister has offered a $1 million reward for cracking the code ...

Stars were "the heavenly writing"; a sheep's liver was "the tablet of the gods". You have a date palm with two tops? People ...

Bilingual artefacts which contain two languages can be used to translate lost languages, with the most famous example being the Rosetta Stone, which led to the decipherment of Ancient Egyptian ...

While many linguists and archaeologists contributed to the decipherment of the script, Ventris’s and Kober’s discoveries were some of the most important. Linear B is considered the oldest known form ...

A well-known archaeologist, S. R. Rao, while delivering lectures on the Lothal script and the decipherment of the Indus script, declared that the Rig Vedic hymns are inscribed on the seals of the ...

Benny Har-Even, head of the Archaeology Staff Officer Corps, said, “Resuming work at Sartaba-Alexandrium after 40 years is a historic moment. This inscription’s decipherment highlights the site’s ...