The Voynich manuscript is a 23.5 x 16.2cm book of about 240 pages, written in an unknown script sometime in the 1400s. The ...

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

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

A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in ...

Armchair cryptographers, rejoice: A Spanish publisher plans to release replicas of the Voynich Manuscript, a book that no one knows how to read. Discovered by an antique bookseller in 1912 by the name ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — You can’t judge this book by its cover. A handwritten manuscript of the Declaration of Independence, worth an estimated 2 to 3 million dollars, was found inside an unassuming blue ...

Image courtesy of Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University/Wikimedia Commons For more than a century, scholars and experts have puzzled over the mysterious manuscript known today as ...

The publishing software firm’s Manuscript AI aims to help book editors sift through slush piles by evaluating submissions ...

Publishing houses receive thousands of manuscripts every year, yet some of the most celebrated works in literary history were ...

The Baldy Center supports book manuscript workshops as part of its mission to advance interdisciplinary research on law, legal institutions, and social policy. The workshops seek to help UB faculty ...