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Posted on 05/31/2026 8:40:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Deep in the archives of the Vatican library, a mysterious hand-written book, scrawled with strange symbols, had lain unread for more than 400 years. Its cryptic pages apparently concealed secret remedies "for affections of the human body", according to some text scratched inside the cover. Such healing practices were kept under wraps at the time since they could attract suspicion or even accusations of witchcraft.
Known as the Borg cipher, the 408-page-long manuscript is mostly incomprehensible -- coded using 34 obscure symbols with a few Roman letters and a front page written in Arabic. There was no known key to reveal what was encrypted. Some of the pages are also damaged due to their age, making the code even more challenging to read.
But with the help of machine learning -- a form of artificial intelligence -- researchers were able to unravel the code. They discovered the text was filled with thousands of bizarre treatments such as drinking several glasses of high-quality red wine or fermenting a nutmeg in some dough to combat dysentery...
According to some estimates, around 1% of the material in archives and libraries around the world is fully or partially encrypted. Some of the earliest known ciphers date back to Ancient Greece and Rome.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
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The Borg cipher is thought to be around 400 years and contains a mixture of strange cipher symbols and some Latin script on its 408 pages.Credit: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Many of those symbols are NOT obscure, they are symbols of planets and/or zodiac signs,
IN BEFORE THE OVALTINE CRAP..........
bizarre treatments such as drinking several glasses of high-quality red wine?
What’s ‘bizarre’ about that? I used to do it all the time!........
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