Archaeology News Jan 24

A new study suggests the mysterious Voynich Manuscript may be a medieval cipher

New research is offering a fresh way to think about one of history’s most enduring enigmas: the Voynich Manuscript. Long described as the world’s most mysterious book, the early 15th-century manuscript is filled with an unknown script and strange illustrations of plants, astrological diagrams, castles, and human figures...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/voynich-manuscript-may-be-a-cipher/

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The Wild Hunt NewsJan 14

A new study suggests the Voynich Manuscript’s famously unreadable text may have been produced using a historically plausible cipher, one that even incorporates playing cards and early Tarot, bringing scholars a step closer to understanding the manuscript’s mystery.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/01/reading-the-unreadable-a-new-study-proposes-cipher-and-tarot-connection.html

#pagan #witchcraft #science #cipher #cryptology #rarebooks #voynichmanuscript #tarot

Reading the Unreadable: A New Study Proposes Cipher - and Tarot Connection

A new study suggests the Voynich Manuscript’s famously unreadable text may have been produced using a historically plausible cipher, one that even incorporates playing cards and early Tarot, bringing scholars a step closer to understanding the manuscript's mystery.

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Ancient OriginsJan 5
The Voynich Manuscript is a fifteenth‑century book written in an unknown script. Despite decades of study, it remains undeciphered, though modern analysis confirms it follows real linguistic patterns.
#VoynichManuscript #AncientTexts #UnsolvedHistory #HiddenKnowledge #Storytelling #DidYouKnow #HistoryFacts #DocumentaryShort #WeirdHistory
Read more: https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/enigmatic-and-undeciphered-voynich-manuscript-unlikely-be-hoax-008440
bewitchedmindDec 12

Es gibt einen (somewhat) lesbaren Teil des #VoynichManuscript und keiner sagt mir was?!? 🤯

Ihr seid mir ja eine Timeline.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnGBl5usAMM

The part of the Voynich Manuscript we CAN read (f116v). Why is it still so hard?

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North of NowhereDec 9

#encryption #voynichmanuscript

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Substitution Cipher Based on The Voynich Manuscript

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/substitution-cipher-based-on-the-voynich-manuscript.html

Substitution Cipher Based on The Voynich Manuscript - Schneier on Security

Here’s a fun paper: “The Naibbe cipher: a substitution cipher that encrypts Latin and Italian as Voynich Manuscript-like ciphertext“: Abstract: In this article, I investigate the hypothesis that the Voynich Manuscript (MS 408, Yale University Beinecke Library) is compatible with being a ciphertext by attempting to develop a historically plausible cipher that can replicate the manuscript’s unusual properties. The resulting cipher­a verbose homophonic substitution cipher I call the Naibbe cipher­can be done entirely by hand with 15th-century materials, and when it encrypts a wide range of Latin and Italian plaintexts, the resulting ciphertexts remain fully decipherable and also reliably reproduce many key statistical properties of the Voynich Manuscript at once. My results suggest that the so-called “ciphertext hypothesis” for the Voynich Manuscript remains viable, while also placing constraints on plausible substitution cipher structures...

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Doc_McCulloughNov 4

I have never in my life encountered a more bespoke internet meme.

#CalvinAndHobbes #VoynichManuscript #medieval

N-gated Hacker NewsJun 29, 2025
🚀🤖 Ah, the endless quest to perfect the art of #error #handling in #Rust by creating error enums that are only *slightly* more complex than the Voynich manuscript. 📜🔍 Why bother with straightforward errors when you can have an entire ecosystem of irrelevant variants for your #debugging pleasure? 🤷‍♂️🔧
https://felix-knorr.net/posts/2025-06-29-rust-error-handling.html #ErrorEnums #Complexity #VoynichManuscript #HackerNews #ngated
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‍🌬️Jun 18, 2025

Hey, hey wake up, a new "definitive" conclusion on the #VoynichManuscript just dropped    

This happens every few years and it's never definitive  maybe they got it this time?

#SciShow
https://youtu.be/K0wVcFXNXLw

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This Famous Medieval Book May Be a Hoax

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Utube PublisherJun 17, 2025

Found over a century ago, the Voynich Manuscript remains one of the world’s greatest unsolved puzzles. Written in an uncrackable script, with surreal art and strange star charts, it continues to defy explanation.

Is it a forgotten language? A code? Or a clever hoax?

Read the full mystery here → https://www.utubepublisher.in/2025/06/voynich-manuscript-code-decoded-mystery-of-ancient-book.html
#VoynichManuscript #HistoryMystery #BookVoynichManuscript #AncientCode #VoynichDecoded #AntikytheraMachine

formuchdeliberationMay 30, 2025

Interesting facts #218 ~ The Voynich Manuscript…

In 1912, a rare book dealer acquired an ancient manuscript that he claimed would 'startle the scientific world.' Cryptologists are still trying to understand its pages... continue reading about the Voynich Manuscript at history.com: #voynichmanuscript #interestingfacts #history

https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/interesting-facts-218-the-voynich-manuscript/

Interesting facts #218 ~ The Voynich Manuscript…

In 1912, a rare book dealer acquired an ancient manuscript that he claimed would ‘startle the scientific world.’ Cryptologists are still trying to understand its pages… continue r…

for much deliberation