A newly-developed cipher could finally shine light on how the strange text of the Voynich manuscript was devised.
In a remote stretch of Egyptian desert, a set of huge carved symbols has revived one of humanity’s oldest questions: were our ancestors trying to speak to the cosmos. The newly highlighted tableau, ...
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The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...