With your help, and some space age camera-work, Oxford University may be on the verge of translating the world’s oldest writing system. Using both the latest imaging technology and the practice of ...

The world’s oldest undeciphered writing is on the verge of what researchers are calling “a breakthrough,” and they’re looking to the public to help make it happen. The symbols you see up top are known ...

This is about where so much begins. For instance, proto-Elamite was the first writing ever to use syllables. If Macbeth talked about the "last syllable of recorded time", the proto-Elamites were there ...

The world's oldest undeciphered writing system, which has so far defied attempts to uncover its 5,000-year-old secrets, could be about to be decoded by Oxford University academics. This international ...