A mysterious script could help solve the mysteries of one of humanity's oldest civilizations. The Indus River Valley civilization site is as important to archaeologists as ancient Mesopotamia and ...

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first represented their speech with written words ...

Dr. Irving Finkel, assistant keeper of ancient Mesopotamian Script at the British Museum, will discuss how the near-universal belief in ghosts goes back to the beginning of time; and reveal how the ...

This article originally appeared in New Scientist. Stef Conner is a composer, performer, and musicologist with interests straddling classical and folk genres. She is working with a group that ...

I found the article “Cracking the code”, on the use of AI to read the ancient Mesopotamian script cuneiform, extremely interesting (6 August, p 40). It has got me wondering if such AI could be used, ...