An ancient Mayan manuscript known as the Dresden Codex has been shown to contain a remarkably accurate method for predicting ...

An ancient Mayan calendar, the Dresden Codex, was able to predict eclipses for centuries, revealing surprising scientific ...

The world’s oldest complete Hebrew Bible, the Codex Sassoon, recently unveiled at the Anu–Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, carries a direct connection to India through its namesake, David ...

“The Naibbe cipher is my attempt to find a way to encode something like Latin by hand as text that partially mimics the Voynich Manuscript's strange properties. The cipher works by randomly breaking a ...

The two codices are rarely on view in their respective libraries and don't travel.

We’ve been able to decipher ancient Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs, Cuneiform, and Old Persian, but not Voynichese.

Written over 800 years ago, the Codex Gigas (also called the “Devil’s Bible”) is one of the most fascinating and interesting medieval artifacts of all time. Thought to have been written by a single ...

The return of two centuries-old manuscripts from France to Mexico will headline talks during French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to the Latin American country on Friday -- a request expected to ...

Two centuries-old manuscripts will be at the heart of talks between French President Emmanuel Macron and his Mexican counterpart Claudia Sheinbaum - Copyright AFP ...