For my money, deep-frying is the single best preparation of pretty much any food that exists. The downside, obviously, being that it coats your heart and arteries in a far less delicious form of ...

The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is offering a $1 million bounty to experts who can successfully interpret the Indus Valley ...

For over a century, the Indus Valley Script has baffled linguists, historians, and archaeologists alike. Found on ancient ...

Authorities are offering out a whopping $1 million award to anyone who can decipher a 5,000-year-old script. Usually you'd go ...

A writing system developed by one of the world’s earliest urban societies has given linguists nothing but grief since it was ...

Michael Loewe, who has died aged 102, led the attempt to break the main Japanese naval code at Bletchley Park, before working ...

Mars' dramatic north-south divide has puzzled scientists for half a century. However, they may now have a conclusive answer.

Fundamental research in cryptography for secure internet banking and messaging is growing in India, focusing on encryption ...

The crowd would then read them and try to crack the riddles,” Pak explained ... However, the riddles weren’t always just for fun. “In ancient times, advisers to the emperor would use ...

Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...

About two decades ago, the conference rooms of Delhi institutions like the Sahitya Akademi and India International Centre were often haunted by a tall, thin and ...