The Indus script has been called, with irony, the most deciphered script in the world. The first claim to a decipherment, based on the Sumerian language, was published as early as 1925. More than a ...

Ancient Egypt Great Sphinx of Tanis, c. 1900 BC, 12th Dynasty (Maybe 6th or even 4th?)© "Ancient Egypt Great Sphinx of Tanis, c. 1900 BC, 12th Dynasty (Maybe 6th or even 4th?)" by Gary Lee Todd, Ph.D.

Figure 1. 'Unicorn' stamp seal and modern impression. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access/Public domain In my previous post, I discussed the Indian subcontinent's first civilization and ...

The ancient cities of the Indus Valley belonged to the greatest civilization the world may never know. Since the 1920s, dozens of archaeological expeditions have unearthed traces of a 4,500-year-old ...

The Indus civilization is one of the great mysteries of the ancient world. An urban society, it was made up of hundreds of cities and towns that stretched across what are today northern India and ...

A mysterious script could help solve the mysteries of one of humanity's oldest civilizations. The Indus River Valley civilization site is as important to archaeologists as ancient Mesopotamia and ...