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 ...

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 ...

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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