The decipherment of Linear B finally let the Mycenaeans speak for themselves, and the greatest key was the vast palace archive at Pylos, the legendary realm of Nestor. From the Palace of Nestor to the ...

The opening of a huge new museum in Egypt has renewed calls for the Rosetta Stone to be returned to Cairo - but an expert has ...

More than two centuries after it unlocked the language of the ancient Egyptians, the Rosetta Stone remains at the centre of an unresolved global debate, as renewed calls grow louder for its ...

A 2,000-year-old code that once looked like random scratches on parchment has finally given up its secret, turning a handful of obscure Dead Sea fragments into a new window on one of antiquity’s most ...

Egypt has said thousands of artefacts can remain in British museums, but renewed its calls for the Rosetta Stone to be returned. Mohamed Ismail Khaled, the secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council ...

Egypt is celebrating the bicentenary of the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and the creation of Egyptology with a batch of new events and a social media campaign To mark one of the most ...

Abstract: European libraries and archives are filled with enciphered manuscripts from the early modern period. These include military and diplomatic correspondence, records of secret societies, ...

Cuneiform is a system of writing that was invented by the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia. Believed to have been created sometime during the 4th millennium BC (between 3500 and 3000 BC), this script ...

Despite advances in technology and artificial intelligence, a number of mysterious undeciphered languages from ancient civilizations continue to puzzle scholars. These writing systems, left behind on ...

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