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Decoding the Trump Stone: Future Archaeologists Finally Translate Old Earth’s Ancient Texts
1+ week, 2+ day ago (245+ words) Imagine it's the future. Paleographers at Harvard III University (New Earth) today announced a major breakthrough in their ongoing attempt to decipher the so-called "Trump Stone," an enigmatic series of seemingly unrelated messages inscribed on magnetic media. Kacey Musgraves Welcomes…...
Scientists Read 4,000-Year-Old Letters Without Opening Their Clay Envelopes — Curiosmos
3+ week, 6+ day ago (811+ words) Researchers are using high-definition X-ray CT and virtual unwrapping to read cuneiform letters that remain sealed inside their ancient clay envelopes. For thousands of years, some letters from Mesopotamia have remained exactly where their writers left them: inside small clay…...
Unveiling history: University of Michigan home to America’s largest collection of ancient papyrus
1+ mon, 15+ hour ago (697+ words) A page from the oldest-known copy of the Epistles of Paul. They were written on papyrus around 200 A.D. (Courtesy University of Michigan’s Papyrology Collection) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Ann Arbor is thousands of miles — and thousands of years — away from Ancient…...
Maybe The Voynich Manuscript Was Never Meant to Be Solved
4+ week, 2+ day ago (395+ words) Six Hundred Gold Ducats for a Book No One Could Read Rudolf II kept his most prized possessions close. Astrolabes. Alchemical texts. A …...
📜 Text charred in the Vesuvius eruption of 79 AD, read in full 2,000 years later
4+ week, 2+ day ago (420+ words) Researchers have read a complete scroll from Herculaneum. The scrolls were carbonised by the heat and are so fragile they cannot be physically unrolled without being destroyed. Instead, high-resolution scans and computational techniques are used to virtually unwrap the scrolls....
The secret hidden in these ancient manuscripts isn’t written in ink
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (549+ words) Scientists have developed a way to recover cellular material from historic parchment manuscripts without damaging the documents. The technique makes it possible to analyze genetic information preserved in parchment and could reveal new details about trade, farming, and other aspects…...
Adam Apocalypse: the stellar alphabet of the Sefer Yetzirah as a framework for versicular…
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (1350+ words) “” is published by AncientEncoder....
Voynich Manuscript Explained: The 600-Year-Old Book No One Can Decode
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (1131+ words) Some mysteries disappear as science advances. Others become even stranger. The Voynich Manuscript belongs firmly in the second category. For roughly six centuries, this mysterious illustrated book has challenged linguists, historians and cryptographers. Its pages contain an unknown writing system,…...
Why the Mysterious Voynich Manuscript Is Still Impossible to Decode
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (243+ words) Today, the Voynich text has been transcribed into a standardized form to allow computer-aided analysis. Inside: thousands of words constructed from a limited set of characters. Their distribution isn’t random. Certain terms crop up frequently, others only show up in…...
The Voynich Manuscript: The 600-Year-Old Book Nobody Can Read
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (31+ words) The Voynich Manuscript is one of history's greatest unsolved mysteries. Dating back to the early 15th century, this mysterious book …...