For more than a century, experts have tried and failed to decode the Indus Valley script, a collection of symbols found on seals, tablets, and stone slabs left behind by one of the world’s earliest ...

A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural battle. By Pragati K.B. Reporting from New Delhi It is a riddle that has ...

A fish under a roof. A stick figure without a head. A series of lines that look like a garden rake. These symbols are part of an entirely undeciphered script from a sophisticated ancient civilization ...