Before the current written scripts, texts, and linguistic manuscripts, there were various oldest writing systems emerging ...

One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This ...

The total research base is around 4,000 inscribed or stamped artifacts of pottery, sandstone, and copper, consisting of ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in ... the mysteries of cuneiform—the world’s oldest writing system. First developed in Sumer, an ...

The enigmatic Indus Valley civilization left behind a script that today's historians haven't yet deciphered. While amateur theories abound, scholars are increasingly relying on computer science to cra ...

A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural ...

The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is offering a $1 million bounty to experts who can successfully interpret the Indus Valley ...

When people think of ancient civilizations ... pioneering everything from astronomical observatories to complex writing systems thousands of years before historians thought it possible.