The decipherment of the mysterious writing system, which was in use from around 200 B.C. and 700 A.D., has revealed a previously unknown language.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have decoded an ancient script dating back thousands of years to the Kushan Empire for the first time, nearly 70 years after it was first identified. It records a previously completely ...

But this “unknown Kushan script” from the once-powerful Kushan Empire is finally understandable again, thanks to a team of researchers deciphering about 60 percent of the characters.