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Decoding the Voynich Manuscript with AI

Project · June 13, 2026 · By Radim Kaufmann

For centuries the Voynich Manuscript has resisted every cryptographer, linguist, and codebreaker who has tried it. An illustrated codex in an unknown script, it may be a lost language, an elaborate cipher, or a very old hoax. Nobody knows.

On this site I keep a live, AI-driven decryption project โ€” an ongoing attempt to apply modern language models and statistical tools to the manuscript's structure.

Why it's interesting

I treat it as an open notebook rather than a claim of victory. You can follow the work from the Voynich Manuscript section. New findings and dead ends alike will be posted here.

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