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Researchers have partially deciphered the"unknown Kushan script" — a writing system that has puzzled linguists since it was first found in the 1950s.
This Middle Iranian language was likely one of the official languages of the Kushan Empire, which sprawled across Central Asia and northwestern India between 200 B.C. and A.D. 700. At the height of its power, in the second century A.D., the Kushans co-existed with the Roman Empire.
An Iranian languageIn a study published July 12 in the journal Transactions of the Philological Society, Bonmann and her colleagues examined the newly discovered"bilingual" inscriptions and decoded the Kushan script using similar methods to those previously used to decipher other ancient languages.
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