AI helps crack centuries-old encrypted manuscripts, including Vatican Library cipher
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Sandrine Ceurstemont
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Artificial intelligence is being used to decipher centuries-old encrypted texts and coded manuscripts, including a 400-year-old cipher found at the Vatican Library (the Borg cipher). The article explores how AI and machine learning techniques are helping historians and cryptographers unlock historical secrets hidden in encrypted documents, such as plots, love letters, and remedies, that have remained undeciphered for centuries.
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The Borg cipher is thought to be around 400 years and contains a mixture of cipher symbols and some Latin script on its 408 pages
The symbols on the 4,000-year-old Phaistos disc – found in the remains of a Minoan palace on Crete – remain largely undeciphered
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