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 book contains strange scientific and botanical drawings in various shades of ...

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 ...

A new study suggests the Voynich manuscript, written in an unknown script sometime in the 1400s, could be a type of encrypted ...

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 publishing software firm’s Manuscript AI aims to help book editors sift through slush piles by evaluating submissions ...

A newly-developed cipher could finally shine light on how the strange text of the Voynich manuscript was devised.

“The Naibbe cipher is my attempt to find a way to encode something like Latin by hand as text that partially mimics the ...

The lawyer for the former Vatican employee accused of trying to sell St. Peter's Basilica an allegedly stolen 17th-century manuscript about plans for the massive canopy over the basilica's main altar ...

Academics might find it hard to see the flaws in their work, but to be a writer is to be edited – embrace it. Laura ...