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

A newly-developed cipher could finally shine light on how the strange text of the Voynich manuscript was devised.

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 long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...

A new study suggests the Voynich manuscript, written in an unknown script sometime in the 1400s, could be a type of encrypted ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Its indecipherable text and illustrations have stumped scholars throughout history. Here’s what we know about the Voynich Manuscript’s content and creation, and whether the text is truly as mystifying ...