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

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Total money market fund assets added $7.5 billion to a record $7.673 TN - with a 21-week surge of $597 billion, or 20.7% ...

Nearly 700 of the last pennies produced in Philadelphia and Denver were sold in an auction last week for a total of $16.76 ...

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

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

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 ...

The project aims to produce a record of the Celtic languages spoken in Britain and Ireland, though the majority of these ...

Researchers started to create the world’s first dictionary of Celtic languages, offering extraordinary insights into the ...

Some ancient writing systems cannot be deciphered. Can artificial intelligence help crack the codes of the past?

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 ...

The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...