Archaeologists use a variety of techniques to learn more about ancient objects. But some results remain open to interpretation, leaving mysteries behind. This list includes objects with unknown ...

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 - ...

For decades, no one could crack the code to a mysterious ancient script called Linear B. In her new book, Margalit Fox tells the story of the... How One Woman Nearly Deciphered A Mysterious Script ...

ACCORDING to a letter from Sir Denison Ross in the Times of Sept. 21, M. Guillaume Hevesy, a Hungarian resident in Paris, has discovered that a number of the signs of the prehistoric Indian script on ...

REFERRING to the note in NATURE of October 1, p. 502, on the similarity of ancient scripts found in the Indus Valley and in Easter Island, it may be mentioned that Prof. Herman Wirth, of Marburg, has ...