For more than a century, scholars stared at the same strange marks and got almost nowhere. The signs belonged to Linear ...

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Archaeologists have uncovered the world’s oldest evidence of human Cryptosporidium infection from Roman-era chamber pots in Bulgaria, and a French team claims to have deciphered much of the 4,000-year ...

A team of early-career researchers at the University of Cologne has succeeded in decoding a script that has been puzzling scholars for over seventy years: the so-called ‘unknown Kushan script’. Over a ...