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 ...

For more than a century, experts have tried and failed to decode the Indus Valley script, a collection of symbols found on seals, tablets, and stone slabs left behind by one of the world’s earliest ...

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 ...

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 government of Tamil Nadu, a state in India, has announced a $1 million reward for anyone who can successfully decipher ...