If you’re looking for a new game for Android that is going to test your skills, logic and intuition, not to mention being loads of fun, then Riddle Dots is a great one to check tout. It’s a “Crazy ...

Alice Kober, a classics professor at Brooklyn College in the 1930s and '40s, played a key role in solving one of the 20th century's great academic riddles: how to read a 3,400-year-old script known as ...

In 1900, the young British archaeologist Arthur Evans began excavating a huge Bronze Age building on the north coast of Crete near present day Heraklion. Because of the site’s location, impressive ...

Warren Lynn, Christian Church Disciples of Christ, paints the design for First United Methodist Church’s labyrinth in an empty lot next to the church in Columbus on May 13. Columbus resident Eric ...

Book Review: The Riddle of the LabyrinthIt’s about, among other things, history, mythology, ancient civilizations, linguistics, puzzles, code-breaking, Homer ...

In 1900 the English archaeologist Arthur Evans made a stunning discovery of Bronze Age ruins at Knossos, in Crete. He concluded that he had found the palace of King Minos, who, in Greek mythology, ...

The only thing keeping "The Riddle of the Labyrinth" from reading like a transcribed Indiana Jones blockbuster is the lack of an 11-hour physical chase. Otherwise, all the ingredients are here: The ...

The excavated ancient ruins at Knossos have been imaginatively and gaudily furbished – Disneyfied – to attract day trippers off the cruise ships and other visitors to Crete. Even so, Knossos remains ...

Evans named the ancient writing Linear Script Class B — Linear B, for short. (He also turned up evidence of a somewhat older Cretan script, likewise based on outline drawings, which he called Linear ...

Margalit Fox's deft, sharply written account of the cracking of Linear B (the earliest Greek script) has a trio of flawed heroes. They are Arthur Evans, the British archaeologist who, in 1900, ...