French archaeologists reported progress on decoding the 4,000-year-old Linear Elamite script, a potential advance for understanding early writing systems. Led by François Desset, the team analyzed ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the world’s oldest evidence of human Cryptosporidium infection from Roman-era chamber pots in Bulgaria, and a French team claims to have deciphered much of the 4,000-year ...

A team of researchers, with a member each from the University of Tehran, Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Bologna working with another independent researcher, has claimed to have ...

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: ...

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ...

While a modern-day war has focused the world's attention on Iran, for French archaeologist François Desset it was a millennia-old mystery that drew him to the country. His quest: to decipher the 4,000 ...