Ahead of time Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Suetonius, the gossip columnist of ancient Rome, says that Caesar wrote to Cicero and other friends in a cipher in which the plaintext letters…

— David Kahn

“Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.”

— Sy Montgomery

“On the above matters there is much to be orally transmitted, as these are our deepest secrets and are kept within our family. Even…

— Yoshie Minami

Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts…

— Mercedes Lackey

Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the…

— E. J. W. Barber

“For the character of Aramaic between the Exile and the Christian era we are indebted more to inscriptions than other writings.”

— James John Courtenay

“Ever since his first ecstasy or vision of Christminster and its possibilities, Jude had meditated much and curiously on the probable sort of process…

— Thomas Hardy

“There was only a language of families, a tongue woven from a lifetime of shared experiences. Its vocabulary consisted of gestures and curt sentences,…

— Courtney Milan

“The word code comes from the Latin caudex, the wooden pith of a tree on which scribes carved their writing.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Sanskrit, an ancient Indian language that became the sacred tongue of Hindu ritual, and the Greek and Latin languages, as well as similarities between…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“From the early days of its existence, cryptology had served to obscure critical portions of writings dealing with the potent subject of magic—divinations, spells,…

— David Kahn

When the first emperor wanted to unify the country, one of the major policies was to create one system of written signs. By force,…

— Ha Jin