The Phaistos Disc has been treated for more than a century as one of archaeology’s great undeciphered “texts.” But a new study argues the mystery may be both simpler and stranger than a lost language.

By 1943, Soviet forces linked their lines near Workers' Village No. 1, finally opening a five- to six-mile land corridor to ...

By943, Leningrad had been cut off for nearly 17 months, with starvation and relentless German pressure threatening the city.