Ancient scripts like Linear A and Rongorongo are among the mysterious undeciphered languages that continue to puzzle ...
The word Mas comes from Mass, the Christian religious ceremony celebrating the birth of Jesus. So, XMas literally means ...
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 ...
Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.
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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