TEHRAN -- The director of the archaeological team working at the Jiroft ancient site in the Halil-Rud River cultural area told archaeologists on Wednesday to use the term Proto-Iranian instead of ...

The breakthrough follows decades of research and relies on the study of inscriptions discovered on silver vessels as well as comparisons with known historical records. The decipherment concerns the ...

Since the invention of writing several thousands of years ago, humans have come up with myriad scripts that turn the phonetic sounds of spoken languages into something visual. Most of these written ...

The world’s oldest undeciphered writing is on the verge of what researchers are calling “a breakthrough,” and they’re looking to the public to help make it happen. The symbols you see up top are known ...

TEHRAN -- The National Museum of Iran (NMI) and the Louvre plan to publish the texts of the Elamite inscriptions in both museums’ collections in a trilingual book. The decision was made in line with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Archaemenian clay tablet written in the Elamite scripts is shown at Iran's National Museum in Tehran, May 1, 2004. His quest: ...

The ancient language of Linear Elamite may have finally been deciphered, according to a peer-reviewed paper recently published in the journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische ...

Yusef Majidzadeh argues that the inscriptions recently discovered at Konar-Sandal, a subsection of the Jiroft ancient site, and at some other ancient sites in Iran, are older than the oldest ...