A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in ...
A new theory argues the famous Voynich Manuscript, often referred to as “the most mysterious book in the world,” may have ...
The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...
In 1912, Polish antiquarian book dealer Wilfred Voynich purchased a collection of old books from the monastery of Villa Mondragone in Rome. Among the books, he discovered a manuscript apparently ...
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 ...
Naked women in pools of green liquid, strange looking plants, and text written in an unknown alphabet; they can all be found on the delicate parchment pages of a mysterious manuscript from the 15th ...
One of many standout scenes in the 1975 classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail features King Arthur and his knights facing down the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog, a seemingly innocuous bunny who soon ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham on Tuesday said he would support a plan making former national security adviser John Bolton's book manuscript available for senators to ...