A 400-year-old coded text found at the Vatican Library is among the historic documents and messages that are being cracked ...

Hannah handed me a piece of paper with the following string of letters. “Each letter stands for another one,” said Hannah. “Ooh, a substitution cipher!” I thought. But I was stumped. “Is this just one ...

A new study suggests the Voynich manuscript, written in an unknown script sometime in the 1400s, could be a type of encrypted message. Science journalist Michael Greshko created the 'Naibbe cipher', a ...