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

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

For decades, one script embedded in the Dead Sea Scrolls resisted all efforts to unlock its meaning. Known as Cryptic B, the ...

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 ...

At first glance, it looks like someone enjoyed taking the spaces out of a sentence; in reality, it's a single word by ...

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

Answer: Great white sharks, but the number of attacks is small. There have been 59 fatal great white shark attacks since — ...

A semester that concluded with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ speech at Commencement also saw the launch of a major online resource for Greek literature that was largely developed at Boston ...

The SBS Audio App gives you easy access to all SBS podcasts and live radio stations including SBS Chill, SBS PopAsia, and SBS Radio 1 and 2 with news in over 60 languages. Listen to SBS Greek live on ...

The word "Bible" means "the book." In both the Latin and Greek languages the term "Biblia" is a plural noun and signifies "The Books." Originally, the Bible was not one book but a collection of books ...

Despite the great diversity of human languages, recurring grammatical patterns (termed ‘universals’) have been found. Using the Grambank database of more than 2,000 languages, spatiophylogenetic ...