Cipher Mysteries

As promised (though a little later than planned), here's the transcript of the second IM session I ran at the 2009 Voynich Summer Camp in Budapest. Not quite as meaty as the first IM session, but some OK stuff in there all the same. Enjoy! [11:56:09] NP: Okeydokey, ready when you are [11:56:18] vc: Okedykokedy [11:56:27] NP: :) [11:56:35] vc: We are. [11:56:35] NP: I ...

According to this recent Wired article, Rajesh Rao, a computer scientist from the University of Washington, has run a Markov chain finder on the 1500-odd fragments of (the as-yet-undeciphered) Indus script - and has 'discovered' that it is "moderately ordered, just like spoken languages". Well, ain't that something. In a depressingly familiar echo of the 'hoax' debate over the Voynich Manuscript, the most ...

While snooping around the (mostly empty) user subsites on Glen Claston's Voynich Central, I came across a page by someone called Robin devoted solely to the Scorpio "Scorpion" page in the VMs. This has an unusual drawing of a scorpion (or salamander) at the centre, and which I agree demands closer attention......