A 2,000-year-old code that once looked like random scratches on parchment has finally given up its secret, turning a handful of obscure Dead Sea fragments into a new window on one of antiquity’s most ...

From the A-10 to the RC-135, every U.S. aircraft carries a mission code that’s supposed to explain exactly what it does. But the 1962 designation system is full of quirks: skipped numbers, broken ...