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A University of Nebraska-Lincoln student was at a party in August when he received a text that would help him decipher a nearly 2,000-year-old message. In the previous few months, Luke Farritor had ...

Tightly looped lines in black ink - obscured handwritten letters from Marie Antoinette to a close friend, Axel Von Fersen. But was he something more? It's an 18th-century redaction, a manuscript ...