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

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Archeologists have unearthed the remains of a 4,500-year-old Egyptian temple where visitors would sky-gaze while on the roof.

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

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This article is going to look at some of those early ideas and how they’ve grown into the technology examples we see all ...

There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

On the night of June 24, A.D. 726, a Maya official named Ajpach’ Waal reached the pinnacle of his career. On that day, he was granted an audience with the thirteenth king of Copán, known to scholars ...

Before the invention of alphabets, literacy was the purview of Egyptian and Mesopotamian scribes trained in complex writing systems that could take years to master. Proto-Sinaitic script, which uses a ...

Have you ever wanted to learn how to read hieroglyphs? Egyptologist Chris Naunton explores the history of hieroglyphs and how they were decoded. 00:05 History of Hieroglyphs 01:60 Rosetta Stone 04:40 ...