Ancient Greek records contain stories about Greek alphabet origins. Could the Greek alphabet actually have an Egyptian ...

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 ...

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

Samuel Dunning plays mad scientist Tim Travers in a new campy science fiction film created by Stimson Snead. For Samuel ...

Japanese stationery stops, cult workouts, crystal shops, bathhouses and K-beauty skincare havens—plus modern Botox studios.

Total money market fund assets (MMFA) gained $10.7 billion to a record $7.666 TN - with a 20-week surge of $590 billion, or ...

Linguists at Aberystwyth University have launched the first comprehensive dictionary to capture every known word of the Celtic languages spoken in Britain and Ireland between 325 BC and AD 500. The ...

But the remnants of a language spoken in parts of the UK and Ireland 2,000 years ago are being collected for what is being billed as the first complete dictionary of ancient Celtic.

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

We all know holiday celebrations are about to take over our lives (if they haven’t already). Everywhere I look, I ...

If your starter word contains a J, rethink your strategy. Here are the most commonly used letters in the alphabet. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is ...