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

CHRISTMAS is a time of light, joy and goodwill – until the board games come out. The skitter of dice along a table, the ...

The last secret of the Dead Sea scrolls has been cracked. The 930 texts rocked the religious community when they were found ...

A 2,000-year-old code that once looked like random scratches on parchment has finally given up its secret, turning a handful of obscure Dead Sea fragments into a new window on one of antiquity’s most ...

For decades, one script embedded in the Dead Sea Scrolls resisted all efforts to unlock its meaning. Known as Cryptic B, the ...

Only a drawing of the sphinx remains, as the statue was stolen in the 19th century and has disappeared. Public Domain A mysterious inscription on an ancient Sphinx that puzzled scientists for decades ...

Ancient scripts like Linear A and Rongorongo are among the mysterious undeciphered languages that continue to puzzle ...

Can a men’s skirt embody bravery, resistance, and national pride?In Greece, the answer is an emphatic yes. The fustanella ...

"Xmas" is not a modern attempt to remove Christ from Christmas but a sacred abbreviation rooted in early Christian tradition, using the Greek letter chi to represent "Christos." ...

Answer: Great white sharks, but the number of attacks is small. There have been 59 fatal great white shark attacks since — ...

Total money market fund assets (MMFA) gained $10.7 billion to a record $7.666 TN - with a 20-week surge of $590 billion, or ...

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