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.

The final pennies to be minted in the U.S. sold for a record sum at Stack’s Bowers, with 696 one-cent coins collectively ...

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

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 age of Eastern European Jewry.

Nearly 700 of the last pennies produced in Philadelphia and Denver were sold in an auction last week for a total of $16.76 million, according to Stack's Bowers Galleries, a coin auction organizer ...

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

The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

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

Ahhh, Arabic! The dazzling gem of the Arab world has been captivating linguists and language lovers for centuries. With today ...