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

Here's what you need to know about playing this festive Hanukkah activity. A dreidel is a spinning top with four sides, each ...

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

A researcher has achieved a milestone in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls by deciphering for the first time one of their ...

A researcher has solved one of the longstanding riddles of the Dead Sea Scrolls by deciphering a hidden script within the ...

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

A new research project by Israeli and international scholars has digitally transcribed the texts featured in hundreds of thousands of fragments from the celebrated Cairo Geniza, as well as thousands ...

Perched along the Mississippi River in northwest Illinois, Galena is the crown jewel of Illinois small-town charm. The town looks like someone designed it specifically for Christmas card photography, ...

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

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 ...

The Arabic text along the Virgin Mary’s dress “runs so counter to our clash-of-civilizations mindset about Christianity and ...

When Mashiach comes, we will realize that we are currently in a dream. Our life is a living paradox, yet it seems to make ...