Protected by a sealed leather pouch, this 10-page notebook still contains legible Latin inscriptions and intact wax.

Like many, I lost the ability to write fluid cursive, and my kids don’t care to learn it either. What does the loss of this ...

A forger who mixed up gothic lettering, used post-war adhesive, and aged covers with tea convinced a major German magazine he ...

The hands-down favorite of the Jeopardy! writing team. If you’ve never played, it’s simple: two phrases are mashed together into one, and you have to untangle them. (Example: A famous shark movie + a ...

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DER SPIEGEL has cross-referenced hundreds of thousands of SS files with the millions of NSDAP membership cards. Here, you can search through the updated files and find clues as to possible SS ...

A 400-year-old coded text found at the Vatican Library is among the historic documents and messages that are being cracked with the help of artificial intelligence.

A German leg of the refreshed Dogma filmmaking movement has been established by Tom Tykwer, Ilker Catak, Nora Fingscheidt, Helene Hegemann, and Kurdwin Ayub. The five filmmakers announced their ...

Tom Tykwer, Nora Fingscheidt, Ilker Catak, Kurdwin Ayub and Helene Hegemann have all signed up to a German version of the Dogma filmmaking initiative, unveiled today in Cannes. The initiative will see ...

A 13th-century notebook pulled from a medieval toilet in Paderborn, Germany, still carries legible writing on its wax pages. The same latrine contained scraps of fine silk that archaeologists believe ...