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 ...

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 ...

More than 5,300 years ago, a civilization emerged along the lush basins of the Indus River in present-day northwest India and ...

An ancient, indecipherable text from the Indus Valley region is slowly being decoded with the help of a computer program, according to recent research. Though it has yet to decrypt this mysterious ...

An ancient, indecipherable text from the Indus Valley region is being decoded with the help of a computer program, according to recent research. Though it has yet to decrypt this mysterious language, ...

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 ...