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

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

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Nimrod is the biblical archetype of the corrupt leader obsessed with his own power.

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It has been widely noted that at a time when our geopolitical rivalry with Russia and China is more heated than at any other time since the Cold War — and Moscow and Beijing are more and more closely ...