Stood outside the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, is a mystery that has eluded the agency's brightest minds for 35 years. A curving metal sculpture, known as Kryptos, was built by the artist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many of Sanborn's works incorporate the surrounding environment alongside concepts from math and physics. - (Craig Hudson/For The ...

Rolls-Royce CEO Torsten Müller-Ötvös said it best in describing its newest collection car. "Wraith Kryptos is a Rolls-Royce Collection like no other. It is embedded with a cryptographic cipher and ...

BOSTON — When Jim Sanborn was commissioned to create a sculpture at CIA headquarters, he wanted to do something that spoke to its world of spies and secret codes. The result was a 10-foot-tall, ...

This undated photo provided by the Central Intelligence Agency shows the 1990 dedicated sculpture "Kryptos" by James Sanborn at the Central Intelligence Agency in ...

The Central Intelligence Agency has a puzzle that has gone unsolved for decades. A piece of art with what seems to be random characters and symbols was commissioned as a reflection of the job the CIA ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist Jim Sanborn poses at his studio in August. - (Craig Hudson/For The Washington Post) Jarett Kobek was a “Kryptos” fan. Not ...

Scientists introduce Kryptos, a giant sculpture with an encrypted message that many people are working to decipher. This NOVA scienceNOW segment: introduces Kryptos, a copper sculpture located outside ...