Work by an Indian cryptographer on the still-undeciphered Indus Valley script suggests Sanskrit may have been the root ...

To truly get an impression of the place, the only way is by traveling it, she believes. For the next 44 years, Rawson ...

During a trip to the British Museum at the age of 10 or 12, the Rosetta Stone, inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs — a writing system that used pictures as signs — taught her that there is a ...

The 9,186-foot-long ice core was drilled out from the Little Dome C, which is one of the harshest locations on the planet.

This limited dataset makes deciphering particularly difficult, as does the absence of a bilingual artifact, like the Rosetta Stone, which helped unlock ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. "Not a single ...

Researchers have just deciphered a series of Babylonian astrological tablets inscribed 3,800 years ago — and the results are ...

Decipherments of ancient scripts are often attributed, and sometimes misattributed, to individual scholars: Jean-Jacques Barthélemy and the Phoenician alphabet, Champollion and Egyptian hieroglyphs ..

The ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics all over the ... slab from a pile of rubble in the town of Rosetta, on the Nile delta. Carved into the stone surface were three texts, written in three different ...

Visitors can spend hours meandering through the carefully looked-after displays, catching glimpses of hieroglyphs hand ... GEM didn’t feel complete. The Rosetta Stone, for example, which still ...