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A newly-developed cipher could finally shine light on how the strange text of the Voynich manuscript was devised.

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Princeton University Press’s Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series offers contemporary translations of classic ...

Since well before President Donald Trump’s second term, the idea that the world should have three spheres of influence—an ...

Some names echo loudly through history, while others whisper from the margins, shaping thought and action in ways that rarely ...

The Latin tutor, as Shakespeare is called in the novel, loves her because she sees the world “as no one else does.” She loves ...

Unlike the Traditional Latin Mass, which refers to the form of the Roman Rite prior to the reforms of Vatican II, ad orientem ...

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