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

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

For years, the Dead Sea Scrolls have fueled theories of encrypted messages and secret doctrines reserved for a select few. A kind of archaeological myth that seemed to be taken dir ...

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

For decades, a handful of Dead Sea fragments written in an unknown alphabet sat in scholarly limbo, legible in shape but mute ...

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 ...

A surprising number of people say they are open to the existence of angels. Their Old Testament identities are very different ...

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

Hanukah is the eight-day Jewish winter festival, beginning this year at sunset Sunday, December 14 (all Jewish days begin at sunset). Let’s start off by getting the best English spelling right.

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Alphabet, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in software, health care, transportation, and other technologies. It operates through the following segments: Google Services, Google Cloud, and ...

Bethlehem has been the subject of countless carols and Nativity plays, but the real story of the little town is far more complex. Bethlehem had a long history even before it became known as the site ...