The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...

“The Naibbe cipher is my attempt to find a way to encode something like Latin by hand as text that partially mimics the ...

In a BBC documentary series earlier this year called “Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World,” the eccentric British filmmaker Adam Curtis mounted a pastiche of images ...

William Noel: 'It was an extraordinary adventure to read the thoughts of a guy who lived over 2,000 years ago. In the field of old books nothing gets more romantic than that' - Weidenfeld and Nicolson ...

It’s been described as the most mysterious manuscript on Earth, written in an unknown language and script, and showing images of strange, ‘alien’ plant species. But the Voynich Manuscript – which has ...

The Codex Gigas (“Giant Book” in Latin) is believed to have been created in the13th century in the Benedictine monastery of ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. It’s an approximately 600-year-old mystery that continues to stump scholars, cryptographers, physicists, and computer scientists: a roughly 240-page ...

Occupation: Curator of manuscripts and rare books, The Walters Art Museum Why I love this piece: This piece is a perfect marriage of art and science. It is a photograph taken last year at The Walters ...

Designing English: Graphics on the Medieval Page at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries examines the how the creation of early English books, from their hand-written language to the bindings ...