Starting in the the 1950s, archaeologists conducting excavations in central Asia have discovered several dozen inscriptions in a mysterious script. The writing system was coined “ecriture inconnue” in ...

Israeli archaeologists have found an ancient comb dating back some 3,700 years and bearing what is likely the oldest known full sentence in Canaanite alphabetical script, experts have said. The ...

Experts used parallel texts to analyze and decipher the unknown Kushan script, according to the University of Cologne. Photograph: André Boutiere, 1967, courtesy of the Collège de France, Archives, ...