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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 ...

The Voynich manuscript has long puzzled and fascinated historians and the public. This late-medieval document is covered in illustrations of stars and planets, plants, zodiac symbols, naked women, and ...

A medieval manuscript featuring an early version of the tales of King Arthur and Merlin, which has been in private hands for about 700 years, is going under the hammer in a rare sale this summer.

An international team of academics led by Professor Garrick Allen at the University of Glasgow has successfully recovered 42 lost pages from one of the world's most important early New Testament ...

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 ...

Moving forward requires coordinated technical, policy, and educational responses. An outright ban on AI in peer review, as is ...

Researchers from the University of Glasgow were able to identify the words of a 6th century manuscript thanks to 'ghost imaging.' Codex H under multispectral imaging. Photo: courtesy Damianos ...

Brandeis University’s Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department possesses an exceptionally rare unpublished handwritten manuscript by Sir Isaac Newton. The manuscript, a ...

A King Arthur manuscript hidden away in private collections for 700 years will go up for auction. The medieval manuscript, ...

The Voynich manuscript has long puzzled and fascinated historians and the public. This late-medieval document is covered in illustrations of stars and planets, plants, zodiac symbols, naked women, and ...