When the Spanish conquered the Maya empire in the 16th century, they forced their new subjects to convert to Christianity and speak and write in Spanish. But long before the Maya used the Roman ...

For centuries, the meaning of the mysterious and mystical Egyptian hieroglyphs baffled the greatest minds in the world. Then, in 1799, the discovery of the most famous piece of rock in archaeology ...

AMME seminar of this week is POSTPONED. We will announce a new date as soon as possible. ***** THE SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED (new date TBA) ***** 200 years ago, important breakthroughs were made in ...

Approximately 60% of the characters in the Kushan script have been decoded, and the researchers are continuing their efforts to decipher the remaining characters. A team of researchers from the ...

An introduction to writing -- The riddle of the Sphinx: the decipherment of Egyptian writing -- Ahura Mazda came to my aid: the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform -- In cuneiform on six bricks: the ...

A team of early-career researchers at the University of Cologne has succeeded in decoding a script that has been puzzling scholars for over seventy years: the so-called ‘unknown Kushan script’. Over a ...

It is our pleasure to announce that the Ancient and Medieval Middle East (AMME) seminar that was postponed in the spring will be organised as a hybrid event on Thursday 20 October (16:15-18:00 ...