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Lisa Fagin Davis was starting her medieval-studies Ph.D. at Yale in 1989 when she got a part-time job at the university’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Her boss was the curator of early ...

It’s an approximately 600-year-old mystery that continues to stump scholars, cryptographers, physicists, and computer scientists: a roughly 240-page medieval codex written in an indecipherable ...

If you can’t read the script on this sheet, it’s not because you lack language skills or never studied antique texts. No one can read it, or, as far as we know, ever has. It’s one of the more than 200 ...

Ancient writings like the Indus script and Voynich Manuscript have baffled scholars for decades. Some researchers think AI systems could help reveal their secrets. Approximately 4,000 years ago, an ...

For decades, researchers have been trying in vain to decipher ancient texts written on the Voynich manuscript - and a British researcher claims he has cracked it. The world-renowned 600 year old ...

Various theories have attributed the Voynich manuscript to cryptographers, aliens, and pranksters. The book, written in an unknown text and dating back to the 15th century, has stumped codebreakers ...

As inscrutable codes go, few inspire as many imaginative interpretations as the Voynich manuscript, a medieval tome filled with illustrations of medicinal plants, astrological diagrams, naked nymphs ...

Here is what is known about the Voynich manuscript, a mysterious document that has bedeviled scholars and top cryptographers for more than a century: It consists of 246 pages of handwritten script and ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. It's an approximately 600-year-old mystery that continues to stump scholars, cryptographers, physicists, and computer scientists: a roughly 240-page ...