British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchased some ancient stones with mysterious inscriptions on them at a flea market in ...

Bahata Ansumali (in pic), a software technologist turned researcher, was in town recently for the Kolkata Literary Meet.

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

The Indus Valley Civilization's script remains undeciphered despite scholarly efforts and modern AI attempts. Tamil Nadu's ...

Various theories have been proposed. Could it be a Dravidian language, early Brahmi, an early Indo-Aryan language or even ...

The prisms are an important record of the Sumerian language. They are believed to be from around 1800BC. They are now part of the Ashmolean museum's collection in Oxford. In the 1920s Sir Leonard ...

If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be a mystery.

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

With a lot of focus on anti-Semitism in the world today, the term has often been mistaken as exclusive to Jewish people.

From Mesopotamia to China and India, the earliest evidence of written language dates back to around 3400 BCE. The oldest examples of writing, discovered in modern-day Iraq, began as pictorial symbols ...

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

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...