Edith B. Ordway was a turn-of-the-last-century American writer better known in her lifetime for penning guidebooks to ...

Codebreakers could win an £800,000 prize if they successfully translate a 5,000-year-old language previously undeciphered. ...

Today, I found this book called Riddle-Rhymes: Puzzle Poems for Children ... "They're variously shapen, Though often they are ...

The Case for Ambiguity in the Exeter Book Riddles. We discuss the background of the riddles, who may have transcribed ...

Riddles and parlor games were especially popular at Christmastime in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, and in 1934 the English author and journalist Eleanor Graham collected dozens from the period ...

They are an ancient form of literature, and the oldest known riddle is 3800 years old. The riddles in this quiz are a bit younger - they were all written in Europe in what's known as the early ...

Nigerian academic Dr Opeyemi Enoch claims to have solved a maths problem that has baffled mathematicians for 156 years. Enoch, a professor at the Federal University in the ancient city of Oye ...