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 ...

For more than a century, scholars stared at the same strange marks and got almost nowhere. The signs belonged to Linear Elamite, a 4,000-year-old writing system from ancient Iran. They appeared on ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Desset, a researcher at the University of Liège in Belgium, said his breakthrough came after studying newly accessible inscriptions on ancient silver vases from the Mahboubian Collection in London.