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’, the University said in a press release. Over a period of several years, Svenja Bonmann, Jakob Halfmann and Natalie Korobzow examined photographs of inscriptions found […]
Kushan era inscription dating back to first century found in Tajikistan
A local shepherd in the mountainous area of Tajikistan has found inscription on a rock that dates back to Kushan era in the first century (80-90 CE). This was reported by AKIpress and Greekreporter. The engraving is in Greek and it reads: ΕΙΔΙΗΛΟ Υ…ϸΑΟΝΑΝϸΑΕ ΟΟΗ-ΜΟ ΤΑΚ-ΤΟΕ. According to Nicholas Sims-Williams, a leading specialist in the […]