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 ...

For decades, one script embedded in the Dead Sea Scrolls resisted all efforts to unlock its meaning. Known as Cryptic B, the ...

SKAGIT COUNTY, Wash. — Using a cryptic code of emojis, substances are being sold to kids via Snapchat, but the one that has people worried the most is fentanyl, a lethal opioid 50 times stronger than ...