Hiding a message in plain sight is the art of steganography, and the acrostic is its most literary tool. From…
We can read the sounds of the ancient Minoan script, Linear A, but we have no idea what the words…
Long before big data, a hidden pattern in our language served as a master key for both spies and scholars.…
Ever wondered why online comments use bizarre words like "seggs" or "unalive"? This is "algospeak", a secret cryptolect constantly evolving…
Ever overheard a conversation that sounded like your language, but made no sense? You might have stumbled upon an anti-language,…
In 1999, murder victim Ricky McCormick left behind two encrypted notes that have stumped the FBI for over two decades.…
Before the printing press, scribes used a secret code of symbols and shortcuts to write faster and save precious parchment.…
Tune your shortwave radio to the right frequency, and you might hear it: a disembodied voice reading strings of numbers…
Filled with otherworldly plants and an indecipherable script, the 15th-century Voynich Manuscript has stumped cryptographers for over a century. Linguistic…
For anyone with a passion for ancient civilizations and the mysterious languages they spoke, the story of the Phaistos Disk…
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