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Discoveries

A Lost Hildegard of Bingen Manuscript Surfaces in a Trier Attic

A retired theology professor cleaning out his late aunt's house found a 12th-century codex containing fourteen previously unknown letters of the visionary abbess.

Marcus Bell · Apr 30, 2026

Mysteries

The Voynich Manuscript: What the Latest Linguistic Attempts Reveal

A 600-year-old book written in an unknown script has resisted codebreakers for a century. Recent statistical work suggests the text is not random — but what it actually says remains unsettled.

Wren Calloway · Apr 3, 2026