It was 1910, or maybe 1911 or 1912, when Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish-born antiquarian, purchased a strange, medieval manuscript. Similar in size to an average paperback, at around 6 inches by 9 inches, ...

In this video i'm going to take a look into one of the world’s most mysterious books, why so many scientists and scholars have been obsessed about it and what we do know about the Voynich Manuscript, ...

For 600 years the Voynich Manuscript has stumped scholars, cryptographers, physicists, and computer scientists. Now, a researcher in Germany has claimed to have finally decoded the most mysterious ...

Carbon-dating indicates the manuscript was almost certainly written on the skins of animals that died between 1404 and 1438, as Brewer notes in an article published alongside his paper. Beyond ...

If you're a bit of a fan of ancient and mysterious manuscripts, perhaps with a little sprinkling of satanic legend, then the Codex Gigas, or the Devil's Bible, is for you. The legend behind it ...

Centuries-old books, manuscripts and printing plates often contain invisible etchings, mysterious letters – and even doodles. A new technology that maps the surface of these objects is bringing ...

The complete (and mysterious) manuscript of Albert Camus' famous novel is to be auctioned and is estimated at between €500,000 and €800,000.

Some 1,450 volumes of the abbey’s extensive corpus survive. Roughly half of these manuscripts remain in their fragile, original bindings. Many were bound during the 12th and 13th centuries in ...