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The Indus Valley script dates back around 4,000 years but has yet to be deciphered. Can AI help decode it?

Script discovered carved in caves, marked on bowls, and found on clay pots in Central Asia has baffled linguists since it’s discovery more than 70 years ago. But this “unknown Kushan script” from the ...

Researchers have managed to decode an ancient script that scholars have been unable to understand for decades. In a study published in the journal Transactions of the Philological Society, a team of ...

Researchers have decoded an ancient script dating back thousands of years to the Kushan Empire for the first time, nearly 70 years after it was first identified. It records a previously completely ...

Experts used parallel texts to analyze and decipher the unknown Kushan script, according to the University of Cologne. Photograph: André Boutiere, 1967, courtesy of the Collège de France, Archives, ...

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The Indus script has been called, with irony, the most deciphered script in the world. The first claim to a decipherment, based on the Sumerian language, was published as early as 1925. More than a ...

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