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Mysterious Voynich Manuscript May Be a Cipher, a New Study Suggests
The Naibbe cipher uses dice and cards to replicate Voynich manuscript glyphs, providing a feasible medieval method though not decoding the original text.
- Study authors approached the problem with a bespoke computer program to test a new encoding model for the Voynich Manuscript, calling it "the most challenging type of a decipherment problem" but not claiming full decryption.
- Wilfrid Michael Voynich, Polish book dealer who bought the manuscript in 1912 from a Jesuit library in Italy, and Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library have housed it since 1969.
- Using an algorithm trained on the UN "Universal Declaration of Human Rights," the researchers matched 80 percent of encoded words to Hebrew, after a native Hebrew speaker's review.
- Many scholars remain unconvinced, noting the manuscript remains mysterious despite new claims, and researchers caution they have not solved the entire text, with occult philosophers mentioned as possibilities.
- An elegant 25 to 30-character script suggests the Voynich Manuscript's six-section layout highlights its cryptologic complexity, while researchers plan to recruit Hebrew and alphagram scholars to expand analysis.
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Leaning Left3Leaning Right2Center3Last UpdatedBias Distribution38% Left, 37% Center
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- 38% of the sources lean Left, 37% of the sources are Center
38% Left
L 38%
C 37%
R 25%
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