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Voynich Manuscript and the Castel del Monte…
The Castel del Monte is a well-known octagonal fortress in Apulia, constructed in the 13th century for Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. However, it was never properly finished and ended up being used...
View ArticleList of Voynich facsimile / reproduction books…
Here’s a list of the various Voynich facsimile editions that have been (or are still) actually in print and that I’ve heard about to date. Maybe you can buy them, maybe you can’t: but here’s everything...
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The Blitz Ciphers and null detection algorithms…
I’ve just added a new permanent page on the mysterious Blitz Ciphers to Cipher Mysteries. Basically, I discovered a few days ago that I had much higher resolution versions of the three scans so far...
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Voynich / Castel del Monte book launch in Brussels…
Newly arrived Voynich theorists Giuseppe Fallacara and Ubaldo Occhinegro will be holding their book launch at the European Parliament in Brussels tomorrow (4th December 2013, 6pm, room ASP 5G2 if you...
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The Somerton Man / Jim Beaumont connection…
This is just a work in progress post: I’ve taken the Beaumont family data recently posted here as comments by B Deveson and Samuel Z, and converted (most of) them into a single über-diagram. Please let...
View ArticleReview of Kerry Greenwood’s “Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man Mystery”…
Right from the start of her book, Australian crime writer Kerry Greenwood promises a lot to the reader (but mainly to herself): to try to understand the Somerton Man, her late father Al Greenwood, and...
View ArticleThe Voynich Manuscript – the Internet speaks its mind!
So there’s this really old manuscript, it’s in Harvard or M.I.T., and it was discovered in 1812 (though Wikipedia says “1712″) by Wilfrid Voynitch who like doesn’t even know his own name because my...
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A Sirius Voynich Theory, I’ll be Dogon!
Hillary Raimo has something big to smile about: a few weeks ago she got to spend some time with the Voynich Manuscript (assuming those Beinecke curators didn’t cheekily swap it for Klaus Schmeh’s prop...
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Somerton Man – video update, and political football latest…
The Somerton Man case crawls ever on, with talk of DNA swirling ever round in its own eternal double-helix – one strand being what Derek Abbott wants, the other being what he’s ever likely to get. Most...
View ArticleThe d’Agapeyeff Cipher once again…
As is well known, Alexander d’Agapeyeff’s 1939 challenge cipher looks like this:- 75628 28591 62916 48164 91748 58464 74748 28483 81638 18174 74826 26475 83828 49175 74658 37575 75936 36565 81638 17585...
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The secret history of Jestyn, and Willen Styn…?
Some interesting Cipher Mysteries comments arrived here today from “RT”, prodding me to take a second look at something I nosed around a while back (but then promptly forgot to blog about). Here’s what...
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The Somerton Man’s cipher, revisited…
A nice email from Byron Deveson recently prompted me to take a fresh look at the Somerton Man’s cipher page. I used the 1802×1440 (400 dpi) scan that Professor Derek Abbott made available on his Tamam...
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Quick admin post – 600K, Curse, chess, pub, etc
Just a quicky adminy post, lots of loose nails all needing tapping in, you know how it is. (1) Happy New Year to you all! (…unless associating happiness with a particular Western calendar is far too...
View ArticleNew Somerton Man page…
I’ve started the year on a positive foot, by knuckling down to a gritty task I’ve been putting off for ages – writing a dedicated Somerton Man page for the blog. OK, it’s not going to oust Gerry...
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Barack Obama and the Somerton Man…
What has Barack Obama got to do with the Somerton Man (an unidentified man found dead on a beach south of Adelaide in 1st December 1948)? The surprising answer (as of a couple of days ago) is that...
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Errors in the Voynich Manuscript…
If you’re a dyed-in-the-wool Voynich hoax muppet advocate, stop reading this right now, otherwise you’ll only get yourself all cross and bothered, and you’ll forget to take your medication or something...
View ArticleA Brand New New World / Nahuatl Voynich Manuscript Theory…
The American Botanical Council (who neither I nor many of you had heard of before this week) are celebrating their 100th issue of their quarterly peer-reviewed journal “HerbalGram” (it says in this...
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Some nice WW2 pigeon pictures…
It’s been a bit quiet on the WW2 pigeon cipher front (the GCHQ Historian has been working hard to try to find some Typex rotor wiring diagrams for us, but so far without any luck, *sigh*), but I...
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Somerton Man thread round-up…
Researchers and commenters have been asking me lots of questions about the Somerton Man over the past few weeks, so I thought I’d round up a load of stray threads in a single post. Hence the following...
View Articled’Agapeyeff Digraph Frequency Table…
I’ve been trying to break the d’Agapeyeff challenge cipher this week, a process that I (along with several other cipher commentators, although opinions differ etc etc) strongly suspect will involve...
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