This week in stories we’re covering at The Debrief: an archaeologist has finally decoded mysterious stone inscriptions on a 2,200-year-old gate that have stumped researchers for centuries. Elsewhere, you’ve got to see these images of what NASA’s Perseverance rover just spotted behind the Martian moon Phobos. Also, researchers have revealed the first temporal photonic crystal, and it’s taking light into places scientists have never gone. And finally, a discovery at a Neolithic site in southeastern Turkey offers new evidence that one of humankind’s earliest and most important technologies was being developed far earlier than previously imagined. And lastly, here’s a look at the other recent stories we’re tracking right now, which are sure to be enjoyed by the rebelliously curious readers of The Debrief: