Palaniappan is one of many researchers using AI algorithms to try and decode the script. Along with a colleague, he developed an algorithm to identify similar characters in the text, looking for ...

The South Sumatra Culture and Tourism Office is optimizing the digital use of the Ulu script application, called Akas, to ...

Artificial neural networks are being used to decipher ancient texts, from the classical stalwarts of Greek and Latin to China’s Oracle Bone Script, ...

The Sumerians are credited with creating the first known writing system around 3100 B.C.E., using wedge-shaped marks made on wet clay that gave the script the name cuneiform (from the Latin word ...

"I shall expect you, sister. Farewell, sister, my dearest soul, as I hope to prosper, and hail." An ancient wooden tablet discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda was found to present the oldest ...

Archaeology breakthrough as ancient text suggests alphabet is 500 years older than thought. ... scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt sometime after 1900 BCE," he said.

Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius. CNN values your feedback 1.

World's oldest ALPHABET is discovered: Ancient 4,400-year-old text is found on clay cylinders from a tomb in Syria - and it upends everything we thought we knew about the origin of writing ...

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 ...

Approximately 4,000 years ago, an ancient civilization living in the Indus Valley (today’s India and Pakistan) comprised 10 percent of the world’s population. Though few records remain about this ...