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 ...

Crumbling medieval texts do not usually make for the subjects of frenzied online debate, with the notable exception of the thoroughly bizarre, persistently impenetrable Voynich Manuscript. The text, ...

The secret to the Voynich Manuscript? It's in a language no one expected. A page from the undecipherable Voynich Manuscript. Canadian computing scientists believe they are cracking the code with the ...

Naked women in pools of green liquid, strange looking plants, and text written in an unknown alphabet; they can all be found on the delicate parchment pages of a mysterious manuscript from the 15th ...

Written in a language whose meaning has either been lost to time or was entirely invented, the Voynich manuscript may be one of the weirdest books on the planet. It has puzzled scholars for decades, ...

Pages from the Voynich Manuscript at Yale's Beinecke Library. No one knows what language or code it was written in, though many, including World War II codebreakers, tried to figure it out. It’s one ...

Two computer scientists from the University of Alberta claim to have created a series of algorithms that can decipher unknown alphabetic scripts, and to test their system they have targeted the ...

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 ...