Scotland has much to recommend it: impressive architecture, gorgeous Highlands, and a long, distinguished intellectual tradition that has spawned some of the Western world’s greatest thinkers over ...

Lisa Pratte wrote to ask, “How can a PDF be converted to Microsoft Word so I can edit it?” Well, first it’s helpful to understand PDFs and what they are. A “Portable Document File” is a manuscript ...

A researcher claims he's decoded 10 possible words in the famously unreadable Voynich manuscript, which has eluded interpretation for a century. The book's 250 vellum pages are filled with writings in ...

Professor Stephen Bax found the word Kantairon alongside a picture of the medieval herb Centaury A breakthrough has been made in attempts to decipher a mysterious 600-year-old manuscript written in an ...