Margalit Fox is a senior obituary writer at The New York Times. Critics have called Margalit Fox's new book, The Riddle of the Labyrinth, a paleographic detective procedural. It follows the story of ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

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For decades, no one could crack the code to a mysterious ancient script called Linear B. In her new book, Margalit Fox tells the story of the... How One Woman Nearly Deciphered A Mysterious Script ...