A 400-year-old Shakespeare mystery has gotten a major shake-up. In a paper published in the journal Shakespeare on April 24 — the day after the Bard’s 461st birthday, if you happened to have candles ...

The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most famous mysteries in ancient codicology or paleography. This illustrated manuscript, authored by an unknown writer and ...

The Greek alphabet, believed to have emerged in the eighth century BC, is undergoing reevaluation by Leiden University.

New research led by Associate Professor Willemijn Waal suggests that the Greek alphabet may have originated centuries earlier ...

It's always fun to find signs and images in the natural world, from faces in wood whorls to accidental optical illusions. So ...