
National Geographic, January 2026
Format: Magazine
ISBN: 9798991544467
Publication Date: 12/23/2025
Around the world right now there is a sudden, obsessive, competitive, and increasingly politically important race afoot to decode about a dozen ancient languages that have bedeviled linguists and historians for generations. AI is playing a role in this race, but so too is human ingenuity, big dollar prizes, and rush of new participants entering a world once the sole domain of scholars. Discover how and why a disparate collection of characters on converging on these uncracked languages – and how their efforts to solve the mysteries of these dead languages could upend what we know about the ancient world. Other features in this issue include:
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