Jules Janick, the James Troop Distinguished Professor of Horticulture, recently received The American Botanical Council (ABC) James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award for his 2019 book ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The enigmatic Voynich manuscript, undecipherable to scholars for more than a century, is a 16th century Mexican manuscript, according to a new book written by Purdue University ...

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 ...

An academic from the University of Bristol in the UK has reportedly cracked the codex behind the so-called Voynich code. The language used in the 200-page manuscript has remained a mystery since it ...

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 ...

Two computer scientists from the University of Alberta claim to have created a series of algorithms that can decipher unknown alphabetic scripts, and to test their system they have targeted the ...

The Voynich Manuscript is a medieval codex written in an unknown alphabet and is replete with fantastic illustrations as unusual and bizarre as they are esoteric. It has captured interest for hundreds ...

Pages from the Voynich Manuscript at Yale's Beinecke Library. No one knows what language or code it was written in, though many, including World War II codebreakers, tried to figure it out. It’s one ...

You report on Gordon Rugg's work, which concluded that the Voynich manuscript is gibberish, while still following the structure of a true language (1 October, p 12). I recently compared the Voynich ...

It’s an approximately 600-year-old mystery that continues to stump scholars, cryptographers, physicists, and computer scientists: a roughly 240-page medieval codex written in an indecipherable ...