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

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

The Voynich manuscript is a 23.5 x 16.2cm book of about 240 pages, written in an unknown script sometime in the 1400s. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The Voynich manuscript has flummoxed cryptographers since its discovery in an Italian villa in 1912. Is it an elaborate cipher, an alchemical sourcebook, a treatise on extinct civilizations or a ...

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Second, the "words" in the manuscript satisfy Zipf's law, which real texts written in human languages all satisfy for unknown reason, but nonsensical texts never do, unless deliberately arranged by ...

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