If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be a mystery.

The Finnish writer Tove Jansson returned from a U.S. trip with a new perspective on home—and an enduring novel.

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Michelangelo’s Moses has more in common with C.S. Lewis’s Mr. Tumnus than the casual viewer might expect—namely, a couple of ...