More than 500 years ago, while a medieval scribe was carefully copying a religious manuscript by hand, a cat walked across the pages while the ink was still ...

The enigmatic Voynich manuscript has baffled scholars, cryptographers, and historians for centuries. Recent technological advances and scholarly efforts offer new insights into its mysterious contents ...

The ancient manuscript rested on the shelves of the Newberry Library for more than a century. Little was known about the bound book from colonial Mexico that had been donated to the library in 1911 by ...