“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 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 ...

A scholarly rite of passage is learning to accept the frequency of rejection in academic life. Alas, many of us fret about what to do (and not do) after being turned down by a journal. Seasoned ...

A prized manuscript in the University of Michigan library that was believed to have been written by the famed Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei is a forgery, the university said. The one-page ...