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 ...

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 ...

LONDON Elaborate symbols drawn on to amulets and tablets by the Indus Valley civilisation belong to an unknown language, according to a new analysis by researchers. The controversial claim raises 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 ...

The Indus Valley Civilization built some of the world’s earliest cities, developed advanced urban planning, and maintained long-distance trade networks across ancient Asia. Yet despite these ...

An ancient script that's defied generations of archaeologists has yielded some of its secrets to artificially intelligent computers. Computational analysis of symbols used 4,000 years ago by a ...

An as yet undeciphered script found on relics from the Indus valley constitutes a genuine written language, a new mathematical analysis suggests. The finding is the latest chapter in a bitter dispute ...

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 ...