An Intoxicating 500-Year-Old Mystery
The Voynich Manuscript has long baffled scholars—and attracted cranks and conspiracy theorists. Now a prominent medievalist is taking a new approach to unlocking its secrets.
The Voynich Manuscript has long baffled scholars—and attracted cranks and conspiracy theorists. Now a prominent medievalist is taking a new approach to unlocking its secrets.
A Columbia historian said he’d discovered a sacred text with clues to Jesus’s sexuality. Was it real?
How a small-town auto mechanic peddling a green-energy breakthrough pulled off a massive scam
Inside the Manhattan DA’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit
A renowned scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment. Now he’s facing allegations of antiquities theft, cover-up, and fraud.
The Harvard scholar says papyrus is probably a forgery.
A hotly contested, supposedly ancient manuscript suggests Christ was married. But believing its origin story—a real-life Da Vinci Code, involving a Harvard professor, a onetime Florida pornographer, and an escape from East Germany—requires a big leap of faith.
In the fight over the team’s name, Ray Halbritter is an adversary unlike any the NFL has faced before.