Some ancient writing systems cannot be deciphered. Can artificial intelligence help crack the codes of the past? Svenja ...

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 ...

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 ...

Announcing $1 million prize for deciphering the Indus script, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin lamented on Sunday that even a century after the discovery of the Indus Valley Civilisation, which has ...

Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on what is now the border between Pakistan and India. During the past century, thousands of artifacts bearing hieroglyphics left by this ...

The author is assistant professor (History) at the Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Delhi University. It has been roughly more than 100 years, since the discovery of the mighty civilization on the banks ...