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A researcher has developed a cipher that might provide insights into how medieval scribes produced the Voynich Manuscript’s unreadable writing. Created in the early 15th century, and often called the ...

Study unravels secrets of history’s ‘most mysterious manuscript’ - Study shows how mystery text could be done entirely by hand using 15th-century materials ...

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 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.

Keagan Brewer receives funding from a Macquarie University Research Fellowship. The Voynich manuscript has long puzzled and fascinated historians and the public. This late-medieval document is covered ...

One of history’s most mysterious texts could be a type of encrypted message created in the 1400s, a new study suggests. The Voynich manuscript is a 23.5 x 16.2cm book of about 240 pages, written in an ...