The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

Some ancient writing systems cannot be deciphered. Can artificial intelligence help crack the codes of the past?

Ancient scripts like Linear A and Rongorongo are among the mysterious undeciphered languages that continue to puzzle ...

Archaeologists in Iran have uncovered a rare motif on Elymaean rock relief that may echo the Hercules–Hydra myth seen on ...

Archaeologists have long puzzled over the elegant stone jars buried with Tutankhamun, their inscriptions intact but their ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Do you enjoy solving puzzles? What would you do if given a foreign code to decipher but no guide to grammar and no dictionary? That is exactly the problem faced by archeologists ...

TEHRAN- Christianity has a long and intricate history in Iran, predating many other regions of the world. Iranian Christian ...

The work begins by re-examining Iran's earliest connection to Christianity, emphasizing the role of the Magi--widely ...

The Apadana, which was used as a gathering hall for receptions, was the largest building in Persepolis. A relief on the stairway includes depictions of delegates to the Achaemenid royal court (left), ...

Ancient languages are captivating despite the fact that studying them or learning about them is a long, complex process. Of course, many students just get briefly acquainted with this subject and ...

The Behistun Inscription is an engraving located on the cliff of Mount Behistun (said to have had the meaning of ‘place where the gods dwell’ in antiquity). This inscription was written in three ...