We’ve been able to decipher ancient Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs, Cuneiform, and Old Persian, but not Voynichese.

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A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in ...

A new theory argues the famous Voynich Manuscript, often referred to as “the most mysterious book in the world,” may have ...

The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...

“The Naibbe cipher is my attempt to find a way to encode something like Latin by hand as text that partially mimics the ...

The 15th century Voynich Manuscript (also known as the Cipher Manuscript) is considered the most mysterious text in the world, and we seem no closer to decoding it that when it was first purchased by ...

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 ...

Scientists have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to unlock the secrets of an ancient manuscript that has baffled experts. Discovered in the 19th century, the Voynich manuscript uses ...

It contains over 113 unidentified plant species, astrological drawings of Zodiac symbols, images of what appear to be pregnant women wading in fluids, and sketches of over 100 species of medicinal ...

Peter Pridmore does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The Voynich manuscript is not an especially glamorous physical object. It is slightly larger than a modern paperback, bound in “limp vellum” as is the technical term. But its pages are full of ...