Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Starting in the the 1950s, archaeologists conducting excavations in central Asia have discovered several dozen inscriptions in a ...

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Starting in the the 1950s, archaeologists conducting excavations in central Asia have discovered several dozen inscriptions in a mysterious script. The writing system was coined “ecriture inconnue” in ...

Experts used parallel texts to analyze and decipher the unknown Kushan script, according to the University of Cologne. Photograph: André Boutiere, 1967, courtesy of the Collège de France, Archives, ...