Work by an Indian cryptographer on the still-undeciphered Indus Valley script suggests Sanskrit may have been the root ...

A fierce rivalry between four scholars ignited a race to crack the world’s oldest writing, unlocking the secrets of ...

It isn’t clear why. It was replaced in Iran by Elamite, Akkadian and then Old Persian cuneiform. Now that Linear Elamite can be read again, Desset has turned his attention to the task of deciphering ...

A few cuneiform inscriptions had been deciphered ... Babylonian antecedents wherever a Canaanitish, Midianite, Hittite, Persian or Phoenician antecedent was not available. Nothing original or ...

Nowruz, meaning ‘new day’ in Persian, falls on the first day of the Persian calendar (around the same time as the Spring Equinox), and observes the end of darkness and the rebirth of nature.

Then the music started, and a crew of nine began a full run-through of “Song of the North,” an elaborate shadow puppet staging of stories from the 10th-century Persian epic the “Shahnameh.” ...

Iran is increasingly interested in investing in infrastructure for a north-south economic corridor that would link the Caspian Sea with the Persian Gulf. This is part of a much wider plan that ...

The Akkadian empire lasted for 150 years, ending with a rebellion. These administrative tablets, containing cuneiform symbols, an ancient writing system, record the affairs of the state ...