We seem to have an instinctive fascination for mysteries and, especially, for mysteries that revolve around secret codes. This penchant brought about a publishing sensation in 2003-Dan Brown's novel ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. In late 2013, archeologist Sara Rivers Cofield was at an antique mall in Maine when she bought a ...

"Bismark Omit leafage buck bank." That seemingly random string of words appears in something called the Silk Dress cryptogram, 23 handwritten lines on two sheets of crinkled paper that were discovered ...

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A secret code hidden in the pocket of a 19th century silk dress was one of the world’s unsolved mysteries. A researcher from Manitoba figured it out A mysterious code written in the late 1800s gripped ...