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When they were younger, brothers Abdoulaye and Ibrahima Barry invented a script for their native language, Fulani. They have spent most of their lives getting their new alphabet—called Adlam—adopted widely, added to Unicode, and are now working to get it on your smartphone.

A supposedly ancient scrap of papyrus, which suggests that Jesus was married, has shaken the world of biblical scholarship.