In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...

Nurtured by the alluvial planes of the Indus river, the Indus Valley hosted one of the world's oldest urban cultures. From 3300 to 1700 BC, the Indus people built impressive cities like Mohenjo-daro ...

Researchers have managed to decode an ancient script that scholars have been unable to understand for decades. In a study published in the journal Transactions of the Philological Society, a team of ...

Researchers have partially deciphered the "unknown Kushan script" — a writing system that has puzzled linguists since it was first found in the 1950s. The researchers decoded the ancient text using ...

A tablet bearing a previously unknown ancient script has been discovered in the Caucasus region, a study has reported. The book-sized tablet—made of basalt, a type of volcanic rock—features 60 signs, ...

In 1908, an archaeologist in Crete discovered a small clay disk bearing unknown symbols. Now known as the Phaistos disk, it remains a modern enigma. The Phaistos disk from circa 1700 B.C. The signs ...

SCIENTISTS are offering someone $1 million if they can solve a mystery from the Bronze Age. Researchers have long been trying to solve an ancient script from the Indus Valley Civilisation that existed ...

The ancient cities of the Indus Valley belonged to the greatest civilization the world may never know. Since the 1920s, dozens of archaeological expeditions have unearthed traces of a 4,500-year-old ...