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 ...

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Multispectral imaging has uncovered that the baffling symbols in the 15th-century document—dubbed the world’s most mysterious manuscript—were scrutinised by its owner, a Prague doctor ...

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 ...

In fact, there are actually three columns of lettering, not just one: the Roman alphabet, a series of Voynich characters, and another Roman alphabet, this time offset by one letter.

However, this analysis has revealed that the letters are written in three rows rather than one, with the alphabet, the Voynich Manuscript letters, and the alphabet shifted by one letter from the left.

When the Beinecke curator first showed her the Voynich Manuscript, she thought, This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. Its 234 pages contained some 38,000 words, but not one of them was readable.

by Yale University Library The Voynich manuscript , discovered in Italy in 1912, is an ancient document characterized by text written in undeciphered characters and mysterious pictures, and many ...

Research on the Voynich manuscript has revealed some clues about its origins dating provides a 95% probability the skins used to make the manuscript come from animals that died between 1404 and 1438.

Late-medieval sexology and gynaecology Research on the Voynich manuscript has revealed some clues about its origins. Carbon dating provides a 95% probability the skins used to make the manuscript ...

He attributed the manuscript to Roger Bacon, the famous 13th century Franciscan friar and philosopher, and argued that tiny Latin letters formed each Voynich symbol.