Bahata Ansumali Mukhopadhyay likens the internet to the Room of Requirements in Harry Potter’s Hogwarts. “If you ask for something, it will give it to you. People underestimate the effect that social ...

Every week, Rajesh PN Rao, a computer scientist, gets emails from people claiming they've cracked an ancient script that has stumped scholars for generations. These self-proclaimed codebreakers - ...

The Rosetta Stone allowed 19th century scholars to translate symbols left by an ancient civilization and thus decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics. But the symbols found on many other ...

The author is assistant professor (History) at the Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Delhi University. It has been roughly more than 100 years, since the discovery of the mighty civilization on the banks ...

Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on what is now the border between Pakistan and India. During the past century, thousands of artifacts bearing hieroglyphics left by this ...

Ancient writings like the Indus script and Voynich Manuscript have baffled scholars for decades. Some researchers think AI systems could help reveal their secrets. Approximately 4,000 years ago, an ...