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 ...

Experts from across the world are working to discover the secrets behind the enigmatic 4,000-year-old Indus script. The ancient Indus civilisation populated what is now Pakistan and north-west India ...

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 ...

Noted Russian academicians and linguists were fascinated with the impressive Harappan ruins and worked tirelessly to decipher the Indus script and the mysteries it hid. Few doubt the greatness of the ...

Do you think you can work out what's on these ancient seals? If you can prove it, you could be in line for a whopping $1million (£832m) reward. Archaegological sites and artefacts left behind by the ...

A statistical analysis reveals distinct patterns in ancient Indus symbols, and creates a hypothetical model for the unknown language. Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on ...

Scholars have recently question whether ancient Indus inscriptions code for language. American and Indian scientists used statistics to show that the 4,500-year-old Indus symbols' pattern follows that ...