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 ...
Armchair cryptographers, rejoice: A Spanish publisher plans to release replicas of the Voynich Manuscript, a book that no one knows how to read. Discovered by an antique bookseller in 1912 by the name ...
The Voynich Manuscript is a star among manuscript mysteries, but few have had the opportunity to spend time flipping through its curious contents. This month, Yale University Press released the first ...
Scientists have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to unlock the secrets of an ancient manuscript that has baffled experts. Discovered in the 19th century, the Voynich manuscript uses ...
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 ...
In 1912, rare books dealer Wilfrid Voynich was rooting through dusty chests of manuscripts in Villa Mondragone, a Jesuit college just outside of Rome. The Jesuits had decided to sell some of their ...
Image courtesy of Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University/Wikimedia Commons For more than a century, scholars and experts have puzzled over the mysterious manuscript known today as ...
A prized manuscript in the University of Michigan library that was believed to have been written by the famed Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei is a forgery, the university said. The one-page ...
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 ...
A rare manuscript featuring early calculations that led to Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity sold for just over $13 million at an auction in Paris Tuesday, becoming the most expensive ...
At first glance, the 16th-century register found in the Cambridge University Library might not seem the most remarkable of objects. Its brittle pages simply held handwritten records of property deeds ...
It was co-written with his lifelong friend, the Swiss engineer Michele Besso. LONDON -- A rare manuscript by Albert Einstein that changed the course of modern science was just sold for over 13.3 ...
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