Every week, Rajesh PN Rao, a computer scientist, gets emails from people claiming they've cracked an ancient script that has stumped scholars for generations. These self-proclaimed codebreakers - ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 fish under a roof. A stick figure without a head. A series of lines that look like a garden rake. These symbols are part of an entirely undeciphered script from a sophisticated ancient civilization ...

Earlier this month, the Union ministry of culture held an international conference in Greater Noida, at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, calling for experts to share their research on ...