Over the past century, archaeologists have uncovered more than 1,600 Proto-Elamite inscriptions, but only about 43 in Linear Elamite, scattered widely across Iran. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...

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The Minoan Civilization of Crete, often hailed as Europe’s first literate society, left behind a strange writing system that continues to mystify modern scholars, remaining an unsolved enigma to this ...

Menzio, who according to the Washington Post was dressed in a red Lacoste sweater and blue jeans that day, had been using the time on his connecting flight to Ontario, Canada, to prepare for a talk he ...