The story behind the centuries-long decipherment of ancient Maya hieroglyphs.
New research on a clump of hair found buried deep in the ice of Greenland has revealed a snapshot of what ancient man looked like. To date DNA sequencing has used modern samples from living people, ...
The encrypted initiation rite of an ancient German secret society preoccupied with ophthalmology has fallen to modern language analysis tools including an online automatic translator. The 19th Century ...
From bizarre ancient markings to random numbers and letters, codes and ciphers have been used for millennia to send secret messages, hide identities and operate outside the law. Unravelling these ...
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