Channel NewsAsia Singapore

This man can read and write 30 ancient Indonesian scripts, some as old as 500 years

JAKARTA: Diaz Nawaksara grew up during the rise of the Internet and telecommunications. When the 30-year-old went to college, he decided to study information management, focusing on storing ...
Newsweek

Scientists Decode Ancient Script That Has Puzzled Scholars for 70 Years

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 ...
Greek Reporter

The Scholars Who Deciphered the Ancient Greek Script Linear B

If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be ...
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Experts crack ancient scripts revealing forgotten human tales

Decoding ancient scripts is a remarkable journey into humanity’s past, unearthing forgotten tales and cultures. The cryptic symbols, etched onto stone, parchment, or clay, often remain as the only ...
CNN

No one knows what this ancient script says. Now there’s a $1 million prize to crack the code

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 ...
Scientific American

Ancient ‘Unknown’ Script Is Finally Deciphered

Researchers have partially deciphered the "unknown Kushan script" — a writing system that has puzzled linguists since it was first found in the 1950s. The researchers decoded the ancient text using ...