We’ve been able to decipher ancient Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs, Cuneiform, and Old Persian, but not Voynichese.

A new theory argues the famous Voynich Manuscript, often referred to as “the most mysterious book in the world,” may have ...

A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

It contains over 113 unidentified plant species, astrological drawings of Zodiac symbols, images of what appear to be pregnant women wading in fluids, and sketches of over 100 species of medicinal ...