The world’s oldest map, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, may reveal the location of an […] ...

To decipher a script, the following subproblems have to be solved in order, Italian philologist Fabio Tamburini wrote in 2023 (Decipherment of Lost Ancient Scripts as Combinatorial Optimisation using ...

Now, academics at Italy’s University of Bologna have identified links between the designs engraved on these 6,000-year-old cylinders and pictographs in proto-cuneiform script – which came ...