‘Impossible’ Dead Sea Scrolls extract is FINALLY cracked – revealing ancient 2,000-year-old message

MORE than 70 years after being discovered, a scientist has deciphered an ancient message from the final Dead Sea Scrolls.
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2,000-year-old code cracked, a Dead Sea Scrolls secret revealed

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 ...
CNET

Wordle Players, It's Time to Retire Your Favorite Starter Word

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 ...
IFLScience

There Used To Be 27 Letters In The English Alphabet, Until One Mysteriously Vanished

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...
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‘Black Mirror’ Creator Charlie Brooker On Fearing AI Script Notes & Writing “Begging Letters” To Actors

Charlie Brooker has built a TV writing career imagining ways in which technology will disrupt human life, and now the Black Mirror creator has voiced anxiety about how AI will change writing processes ...
Observer

‘Four Letters of Love’ Delivers a Long, Damp Script to Nowhere

Nicholas Coughlan, played by newcomer Fionn O’Shea, is the son of a bored, wasted civil servant in Dublin, played by hopelessly miscast Pierce Brosnan. Every day, he witnesses his father’s misery ...
Greek City Times

The Forgotten Letters of the Greek Alphabet

The Greek alphabet is one of the most enduring and influential writing systems in human history. From its origins in the 8th century BCE, it laid the foundation for the Latin alphabet and by extension ...
Greek Reporter

The Lost Letters of the Greek Alphabet

Early Greek alphabet painted on the body of an Attic black-figure cup. Today, there are missing letters in the Greek alphabet. Credit: flickr / Dan Diffendale CC BY-SA 2.0 The Greek alphabet has ...
Greek Reporter

Was the Ancient Phoenician Script a True Alphabet?

An inscription written in the Proto-Sinaitic Script, the direct precursor to the Phoenician consonantal alphabet. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, public domain To understand why the Phoenician script was ...