It's still unknown who wrote it and what it means, but a UA-led team has solved one mystery of the "Voynich manuscript" - its age. Through radiocarbon dating, a team led by University of Arizona ...

Swallows, by Natsuo Kirino, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (Knopf). This acerbic novel explores the ramifications of a controversial topic in Japan: surrogacy. (Although the ...

Have you ever taken a photo and seen a mysterious shadow lurking in the corner? People say that eyes can play tricks on us, but what about the times there's visual proof of those tricks? "Photoshop ...

NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi will address the international conference on India's manuscript heritage on Friday and also launch the 'Gyan Bharatam' portal, a dedicated digital platform to accelerate ...

India is set to launch 'Gyan Bharatam', a project to preserve its manuscript heritage. The initiative aims to unite stakeholders and institutions nationwide. A conference in New Delhi marks the ...

Back in the early 1800s, a man by the name of Thomas Jefferson Beale reportedly shared in a huge mining find: thousands of pounds of gold, silver, and jewels that would be worth more than $15 million ...

Euro board games sometimes catch criticism for using a narrow and repetitive band of themes: trading in the Mediterranean, finding efficiencies in agricultural or industrial processes, fussing around ...

For 600 years the Voynich Manuscript has stumped scholars, cryptographers, physicists, and computer scientists. Now, a researcher in Germany has claimed to have finally decoded the most mysterious ...

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