Many of Sanborn's works incorporate the surrounding environment alongside concepts from math and physics. - (Craig Hudson/For The Washington Post) When artist Jim Sanborn talks about “Kryptos,” his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artist Jim Sanborn, the creator of the cryptographic sculpture “Kryptos,” at his studio on Aug. 13. - (Craig Hudson/For The Washington Post) The long sought-after solution to the fourth passage of ...

When artist Jim Sanborn talks about “Kryptos,” his sculpture at the CIA headquarters, and the famously unsolved secret code engraved in its copper panels, he sounds as if he’s talking about espionage, ...

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 ...