Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist Jim Sanborn, the creator of the cryptographic sculpture “Kryptos,” at his studio on Aug. 13. - (Craig Hudson/For The ...

Kryptos' Final Code Remains Unsolved. the CIA Sculpture's Creator Is Auctioning the Solution BOSTON (AP) — When Jim Sanborn was commissioned to create a sculpture at CIA headquarters, he wanted to do ...

BOSTON (AP) — 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, S ...

For 35 years, amateur sleuths and cryptographers have been playing a game with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). They’ve attempted to decipher the four messages hidden in a sculpture dubbed ...

The puzzle’s designer, James Sanborn, has urged the solution’s buyer not to reveal it, but to keep it safe until the Smithsonian releases its own copy. Puzzlers, enigmatologists, and even professional ...

The long sought-after solution to the fourth passage of “Kryptos,” artist Jim Sanborn’s secret-code-bearing sculpture at CIA headquarters, sold at auction Thursday night for a final price of $962,500, ...

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

BOSTON (AP) — 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, S ...