For decades, one script embedded in the Dead Sea Scrolls resisted all efforts to unlock its meaning. Known as Cryptic B, the code had remained undeciphered for more than 70 years, puzzling generations ...

Researchers are using a very modern tool to transcribe and read hundreds of thousands of medieval manuscripts from the lost ...

Few scenes in the Christian imagination are as iconic as the three travelers kneeling before the infant Jesus, their camels ...

Here’s a brain-teaser: the name “Jesus” would have meant absolutely nothing to the man from Nazareth himself. In fact, the letter “J” never existed during his era. For anyone who’s ever wondered how ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s sweeping and experimental anti-war novel John D. Negroponte, a career diplomat and national ...

A researcher has solved one of the longstanding riddles of the Dead Sea Scrolls by deciphering a hidden script within the ...

A scholar claims to have deciphered Cryptic B, a mysterious alphabet in the Dead Sea Scrolls long thought impossible to read.

Here's what you need to know about playing this festive Hanukkah activity. A dreidel is a spinning top with four sides, each ...

What if our first name could also be the mirror of our soul? That’s the premise of letter numerology. Since ancient times, many have seen numbers as the secret language of the universe. It’s an idiom ...

THE ALPHABET is easy to take for granted. Children memorise it before they know why it matters. Then it’s off to reading, and learning the sounds of the letters and how they combine. After that, many ...