A researcher has solved one of the longstanding riddles of the Dead Sea Scrolls by deciphering a hidden script within the famous texts.

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 ...