Undeciphered
10 scripts
Rongorongo
A system of glyphs carved on wooden objects. Discovered by Europeans in 1864. Has not been...
Linear A
The writing of the Minoan civilization on Crete, used from about 1800 to 1450 BC. Its stru...
Indus Script
Used by the Indus Valley or Harappan civilization, one of the earliest urban societies. Ar...
Proto-Elamite
Among the oldest written records in the world, from ancient Elam in southwestern Iran. Nam...
Cretan Hieroglyphs
A pictographic script of Middle Minoan Crete, contemporary with the earliest Linear A. Kno...
Cypro-Minoan
A syllabic script of Bronze Age Cyprus, derived from Linear A and ancestral to the later C...
Phaistos Disc
A fired clay disc from Minoan Crete stamped with 241 tokens of 45 distinct pictorial signs...
Zapotec Script
One of the oldest writing systems of Mesoamerica, created by the Zapotec civilization. Ove...
Iberian Script
A semi-syllabic script of ancient Iberia, adapted from Phoenician and Greek models. Two ma...
Vinca Symbols
Markings on Neolithic pottery from the Vinca culture of southeastern Europe. Some claim th...