UG lecturer of Hebrew Emmanuel Oliveiro was the first person in the world who managed to decipher Cryptic B, a secret code in two of the Dead Sea Scrolls that was considered to be indecipherable. ‘I figured someone had to do it.’I noted this story and the underlying DSD article back in December. This article give additional background, especially about the decipherer.
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