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A mysterious artifact, called the Bashplemi Tablet, was discovered in 2021 and has a never-before-seen writing system on it.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeological research in the Middle East is revealing how a long-forgotten ancient civilisation used previously undiscovered ...

A new language has been discovered in a UNESCO World Heritage Site being excavated in northern Turkey, according to a news release from the University of Würzburg. The area being excavated is Boğazköy ...

Archaeologists uncovered a basalt tablet in the Bashplemi Lake region of Georgia with an unknown language carved into its face. The tablet featured 60 characters across seven rows. Experts said that ...

Researchers have decoded an ancient script dating back thousands of years to the Kushan Empire for the first time, nearly 70 years after it was first identified. It records a previously completely ...

There’s a new language in town. Well, actually, it’s ancient, and experts can’t even read it yet. But they’re excited to find out more. Archaeologists discovered a basalt tablet about the size of a ...

Archaeologists now face a rare and delicate challenge: to document, date, and decode a writing tradition that surfaces in the record fully formed, yet without a clear link to the scripts around it.

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...