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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 ...

The enigmatic Voynich manuscript has baffled scholars, cryptographers, and historians for centuries. Recent technological advances and scholarly efforts offer new insights into its mysterious contents ...

It’s been an unusually long time since anyone claimed they have cracked the century-long case of the Voynich Manuscript’s cipher. In a new article for the Social History of Medicine, however, ...

About 10 years ago, several folios of the mysterious Voynich manuscript were scanned using multispectral imaging. Lisa Fagin Davis, executive director of the Medieval Academy of America, has analyzed ...

The Voynich Manuscript is a medieval codex written in an unknown alphabet and is replete with fantastic illustrations as unusual and bizarre as they are esoteric. It has captured interest for hundreds ...

For 600 years the Voynich Manuscript has stumped scholars, cryptographers, physicists, and computer scientists. Now, a researcher in Germany has claimed to have finally decoded the most mysterious ...

The most mysterious manuscript in the world, the 600-year-old Voynich Manuscript, has been baffling bright minds for the better part of a millennium. Now, a University of Bedfordshire applied ...

The Voynich manuscript—a mysterious medieval book that has defied translation for centuries—may have been created using a special code developed with the help of cards and dice, a new study suggests.

"The fifteenth-century work commonly known as the Voynich Manuscript is often called the world's most mysterious book. Written in an unknown script by an unknown author, the manuscript has no clearer ...