We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a few more forms..

Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until cl….

The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no..

The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house desig….

Clothing, right from our first direct evidence twenty thousand years ago, has been the handiest solution to conveying social messages visually, silen….

So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the hum….