For 600 years the Voynich Manuscript has stumped scholars, cryptographers, physicists, and computer scientists. Now, a researcher in Germany has claimed to have finally decoded the most mysterious ...

The Voynich manuscript gets pretty weird. Image credit: Cipher manuscript (Voynich manuscript). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (public domain) ...

Early owners The Voynich Manuscript ’s earliest known probable owner is Carl Widemann, a physician and alchemist based in Augsburg, Germany, who was also a collector and book dealer.

About 10 years ago, several folios of the mysterious Voynich manuscript were scanned using multispectral imaging. Lisa Fagin Davis, executive director of the Medieval Academy of America, has ...

The Voynich text (Image via The Why Files/Youtube) The Voynich Manuscript was passed down to Wilfred M, Voynich, who in 1912 bought this book from the College of Jesuits and tried to decode it for ...

The Polish-American bookseller Wilfred M. Voynich—after whom the manuscript is now named—purchased it in 1912. Voynich moved to the U.S. in 1919, hoping to sell the manuscript for a large sum.

Could the Mysterious Voynich Manuscript Actually Be About Sex? A new study posits that the ancient work encodes "women's secrets." An expert pouring over the Voynich Manuscript in 2016.

To many, the Voynich Manuscript represents a 600-year-old mystery. The medieval text is filled with bizarre illustrations and is written in a hitherto indecipherable language.