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 ...

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

Study unravels secrets of history’s ‘most mysterious manuscript’ - Study shows how mystery text could be done entirely by hand using 15th-century materials ...

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 ...

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 ...