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

RIAN JOHNSON’S FIRST TWO Knives Out films are almost impossibly rooted in their own moments.

Countless YouTube videos have been made on the many hidden Jeep Easter Egg locations on modern-era vehicles from this ...

This is a love letter to Thai script, treated not just as language but as material with its own moods and textures. The artists look at the alphabet the way som ...

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A Christian empire that inherited classical learning, Byzantium preserved pagan texts via schools, new script, scholia, and ...

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, ...

Several of the films on my best-of-the-year list, including “Last Air in Moscow,” are fundamentally timeless expressions and explorations of solidarity. They take us inside authoritarian crackdowns, ...

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The 1978 production remains one of the worst films in cinematic history. But 45 years after the star’s death, it is also seen as her final, daring attempt to assert herself ...

In just the last few years, places names in B.C. have been given the monikers of stal̕əw̓asəm, wək̓ʷan̓əs tə syaqʷəm and ...