Étiquette : unsolved codes
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The Voynich Manuscript: Why Six Centuries of Cryptographers Have Failed
In a humidity-controlled vault in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, call number MS 408, lies a 240-page codex that has defeated every professional cryptographer who has attempted to read it since it surfaced in European collections in the early seventeenth century. Carbon-dated by the University of Arizona in 2009 to between…