An Italian computer engineer with a keen interest in languages has solved the mystery of some perplexing scribblings found in the margins of a centuries-old copy of Homer’s “The Odyssey.” The ...

Andrew Robinson reflects on the most tantalizing of all the undeciphered scripts — that used in the civilization of the Indus valley in the third millennium bc. The Indus civilization flourished for ...

While the U.S. daily headlines play out the Greek debt crisis like a suspense movie with an unknown ending, the reality is that European leaders have most of this Greek theater scripted to the very ...

The zodiac signs link to ancient scripts: Aries with Linear A, Taurus with cuneiform, Gemini with Linear B, Cancer with Ogham, Leo in hieroglyphs, Virgo in Sanskrit, Libra with Classical Greek, ...