“Not every experience should be pleasurable. Sometimes we need friction, safety warnings,” Turner said. Those disclosures ...

Ancient scripts like Linear A and Rongorongo are among the mysterious undeciphered languages that continue to puzzle ...

High in the misty hills of Appalachia, where old forests stretch for miles and stories travel easily from one porch to another, symbols have always mattered. Long before modern locks and alarm systems ...

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 ...

Some ancient writing systems cannot be deciphered. Can artificial intelligence help crack the codes of the past?

Editor Luke Lynch explains why director Kahlil Joseph's vision called for something more abstract, but potentially richer, ...

Christian nationalists vow to put "Christ back into Christmas." In response, the Church of England has launched a holiday ad campaign to counter the far-right appropriation of Christian symbols.

The Godfather, Citizen Kane, and Chinatown are all among the absolute greatest Oscar-winning screenplays of all time.

Discover what the oldest alphabet in the world is. Learn how the oldest script has shaped modern writing and transformed ...

A massive sculpture at New York's High Line by Tuan Andrew Nguyen will commemorate Afghanistan's Bamiyan Buddhas.

How directors and writers striving for a PG-13 rating have learned to ration the use of a four-letter obscenity.