Researchers have decoded more than half of the characters in the so-called "Kushan script" by comparing them with inscriptions in a known ancient language called Bactrian. When you purchase through ...

The Kushan Empire in Central Asia was one of the most influential states of the ancient world. A research team at the University of Cologne's Department of Linguistics has now deciphered a writing ...

Researchers have partially deciphered the "unknown Kushan script" — a writing system that has puzzled linguists since it was first found in the 1950s. The researchers decoded the ancient text using ...