A recent study published in the journal Cryptologia presents what its author calls the Naibbe cipher, a manual substitution ...

For decades, a handful of Dead Sea fragments written in an unknown alphabet sat in scholarly limbo, legible in shape but mute in meaning. Now a researcher has finally cracked that hidden script, ...

Not all matters revolve around war and peace; love too can demand a veil of secrecy. "From a private collector, we have ...