In a temperature-controlled vault at Yale University sits a slim, hand-written book that no one has ever been able to read.

The Voynich manuscript is the most stubborn document in the world. It is a ...

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The 15th-century Voynich manuscript has puzzled scholars and confounded attempts to decipher it for centuries. Its 200-odd pages contain dozens of colorful illustrations of plants, astrological ...

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 ...

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, ...

The term paleolinguistics struck me as very odd. Turns out, that’s not a real, established field. In any case, if we are talking about a 14th century manuscript, we already have Romance writing from ...

In a BBC documentary series earlier this year called “Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World,” the eccentric British filmmaker Adam Curtis mounted a pastiche of images ...

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For those interested, Yale has published a photographic reproduction of the manuscript that's more than sufficient for anyone interested in taking a crack at deciphering it. My gut feeling is that ...