History, Manuscripts, and Archaeology

Preserving history is great. But we don't really understand the past accurately. Our best model of the past is a collection of stories, artifacts, and documents by the survivors of physical and social calamity and weathering. This is an inherently biased starting point.

We can use AI to help us to model the past more conclusively, to not only preserve the history we have, but to uncover the history we don't know or that was lost to time, spoils of war, or the elements.

Genuine Mysteries of History

There are numerous mysteries of history that we have yet to solve. That may be shocking for readers whose worldview is shaped by history and science as a largely solved problem, now left to the fringe to debate the finer points on. But there are many mysteries of history that we have yet to solve.

To this day, we have not yet deciphered some incredibly intriguing, almost alien-looking manuscripts.

Historical Resources

• Stone Pages - Stonehenge, other megaliths, and prehistory.
• Cook Book from Kansas - Historical texts and documents from Kansas.
• RomeArtLover.it - A website about the history of Rome, with a focus on art and architecture.

The Voynich Manuscript

Quite likely the most famous undeciphered manuscript in the world. It has changed hands many times, been analyzed the world over, and nodbody has yet to provide a satisfactory explanation for what it is or what it means. The most fun part is that it could simple be a hoax! But even if it is, the complexity of this hoax is astounding, and an AI-assisted analysis could help us to understand it better.

• Voynich Manuscript at voynich.nu - Information on the Voynich Manuscript, an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system.
• Proto57
• Santa-Coloma has their views here. The rest of these links are also from Santa-Coloma - thank you!

  • Beineke Library high resolution scans of the Voynich

  • Voynich Gallery: A fast loading, convenient repository of the manuscript as jpg's.

  • Jan B. Hurych's Excellent VMs site. The most detailed, accurate and informative VMs provenance insight anywhere.

  • Voynich mailing list, begun by Jim Gillogly, now maintained by Rich SantaColoma.

  • Wikipedia Voynich page. Much information, many theories, and useful links here.

  • Philip Neal's Voynich Pages: A wealth of information, transcriptions, and translations of key, related documents. A "can't miss".

  • René Zandbergen's Voynich site: More Voynich information than anywhere else, but limited to the premise the Voynich is a Genuine 15th Century Cipher Herbal.

  • The Journal of Voynich Studies: Interesting and "out of the box" points and discussion.

  • VIB: Voynich Information Browser: Page by page transcriptions of the VMs, with much information and analysis

  • P. Han's Voynich Theory

  • The Voynich Ninjas: Interesting Voynich discussion, but confined within the paradigm of 1420 Genuine Cipher Herbal

  • Voynich & Cipher History Blogs:

    • The 1910 Voynich Theory My own blog: Various points of the Modern Forgery theory in much more detail.

    • Klausis Krypto Kolumne: Fascinating facts about historical and current cipher history and mystery.

    • Elmar Vogt's interesting Voynichthoughts Blog

    • And from Mr. Vogt's blog (above): Top Ten Bad Signs Your Theory is Wrong

    • Nick Pelling's Cipher Mysteries: Voynich and other codes/ciphers

    • Elias Schwerdtfeger's Deutsche Blog: In German, but translates recognizably in Google translator

    • Voynichlupe. Also in German, but here is the Google's attempt at an English version...

    • Work & Translations of Professor J.T. Zlatoděj Works well in the Google Czech translator. Is the answer right here?