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 ...

A manuscript written in incomprehensible text and dating back to the middle ages has spawned countless theories. But will we ever know where it comes from, who wrote it or what it means?

Today, the Voynich Manuscript, as it became known, is kept in Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Scholars have pored over its content for over a century, but no one has ...

Without assuming anything about meaning or trying to decode the mysterious 15th-century Voynich Manuscript, Brian Grant wrote software that analyzed the structure of its inscrutable text to see if ...

A new study claims that the Voynich manuscript, a medieval text which is undeciphered to this day, describes historical events, like the eruption of a volcano in the Mediterranean Sea. However ...

The most mysterious manuscript in the world, the 600-year-old Voynich Manuscript, has been baffling bright minds for the better part of a millennium. Now, a University of Bedfordshire applied ...

No one knows who wrote the Voynich manuscript or for what purpose, but carbon dating places its origins between 1404 and 1438, despite Voynich’s claim that it was a 13th-century document.As far ...

Plants and pots, from the Voynich Manuscript. credit: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, General Collection, folio 99v, MS 408 Often described as the “world’s most ...

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.

A manuscript written in incomprehensible text and dating back to the middle ages has spawned countless theories. But will we ever know where it comes from, who wrote it or what it means?

Known as the Voynich manuscript, it's named after Wilfrid Voynich, the collector and bookseller who acquired it in 1912. CESAR MANSO/AFP/AFP/Getty Images.