Ancient scripts like Linear A and Rongorongo are among the mysterious undeciphered languages that continue to puzzle ...

Some ancient writing systems cannot be deciphered. Can artificial intelligence help crack the codes of the past?

The British Museum houses around 130,000 clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia written in cuneiform script between 3200 b.c. and the first century a.d. Since so few scholars can read the languages on ...

New beginnings are in motion at Clay High School: the football team will now play in the Buckeye division of the Northern Lakes league, new quarterback candidates will fill the role of graduated star ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

When the Amarna Letters were first discovered in Egypt, many scholars thought they were fake. They were not written on papyrus, but clay tablets—a material that wasn’t used in the region. Nor were ...

Long before Genesis was written, ancient Mesopotamians told flood stories about heroes like Ziusudra, Atrahasis, and Utnapishtim—men warned by the gods to build massive boats and save life from a ...

Cassius Marcellus Clay might have been invented by a novelist with a penchant for the improbable. One of the most flamboyant and controversial figures of the antebellum era, Clay was born into ...