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

The word Mas comes from Mass, the Christian religious ceremony celebrating the birth of Jesus. So, XMas literally means ...

"Xmas" is not a modern attempt to remove Christ from Christmas but a sacred abbreviation rooted in early Christian tradition, using the Greek letter chi to represent "Christos." ...

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

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

For centuries, hieroglyphs have helped historians piece together the beliefs, rituals, and everyday lives of ancient ...

A museum visit sparked a revelation when a Roman glass cup was turned around and its overlooked markings came into focus.

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

A scholar claims to have deciphered Cryptic B, a mysterious alphabet in the Dead Sea Scrolls long thought impossible to read.

A treasure trove of 225 funerary figurines has been discovered inside a tomb in the ancient Egyptian capital of Tanis in the Nile Delta, a rare find that experts say has also solved a "long-standing ...