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October 2026
22 Oct 2026
FindingVoynich Manuscript

In the Voynich Manuscript, where a word sits in its line changes how it is spelled

In six of ten spelling pairs, the variant the scribe chose depends on where the word falls in its line. No cipher key we tested behaves this way, and neither does Latin.

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2025 and earlier
Nov 2025
In the newsVoynich Manuscript

A fifteenth-century hand cipher can produce Voynich-like text

Michael Greshko shows that a cipher using dice and playing cards, practical in the 1400s, yields text with many of the manuscript's statistics.

Cryptologia · Michael Greshko