The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...
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 has been puzzling emperors, antiquarians, and cryptologists for at least 400 years. It’s an illuminated manuscript of 240 vellum pages written by an unknown author in an unknown ...
Jules Janick, the James Troop Distinguished Professor of Horticulture, recently received The American Botanical Council (ABC) James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award for his 2019 book ...
For those interested, Yale has published a photographic reproduction of the manuscript that's more than sufficient for anyone interested in taking a crack at deciphering it. My gut feeling is that ...
The term paleolinguistics struck me as very odd. Turns out, that’s not a real, established field. In any case, if we are talking about a 14th century manuscript, we already have Romance writing from ...