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 ...

A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in the Voynich manuscript, a new study shows. The finding suggests that an ...

Lisa Fagin Davis was starting her medieval-studies Ph.D. at Yale in 1989 when she got a part-time job at the university’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Her boss was the curator of early ...

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