A newly invented cipher may shed light on how the mysterious Voynich manuscript was made in medieval times.

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

A researcher has developed a cipher that might provide insights into how medieval scribes produced the Voynich Manuscript’s unreadable writing. Created in the early 15th century, and often called the ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of history’s most mysterious texts could be a type of encrypted message created in the 1400s, a new study suggests. The Voynich manuscript is a 23.5 x 16.2cm book of about 240 pages, written in an ...

Keagan Brewer receives funding from a Macquarie University Research Fellowship. The Voynich manuscript has long puzzled and fascinated historians and the public. This late-medieval document is covered ...