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

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

The final pennies to be minted in the U.S. sold for a record sum at Stack’s Bowers, with 696 one-cent coins collectively ...

Here's what you need to know about playing this festive Hanukkah activity. A dreidel is a spinning top with four sides, each inscribed with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The Hebrew letters ...

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

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

Samuel Dunning plays mad scientist Tim Travers in a new campy science fiction film created by Stimson Snead. For Samuel ...

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

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

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

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