A medieval manuscript featuring an early version of the tales of King Arthur and Merlin, which has been in private hands for ...

The forgotten notebook, discovered earlier this year in France's national library, contained music Mozart wrote while ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1827, according to Mormon belief, a young man named Joseph Smith discovered golden plates engraved with ancient Egyptian writing on a hill in upstate New York. With God’s help, he translated the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A pair of Canadian codebreakers may have deciphered a 600-year-old book that has been baffling cryptologists for centuries. But, more likely, they probably haven't. In a study published in the journal ...

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