Mysteries : What do they mean?

Voynich Manuscript ...

• depicts pictures of weird alien-looking plants, naked women, strange objects, zodiac symbols

• Cryptologists have successfully deciphered the text.

• no experts were able to decode the text

• it is named after the man who wrote it.

One explanation for Voynich Manuscript is a woman's Health manual, theorized by ...

• Nicholas Gibbs

• Nicholas Cage

• every character might be medieval Latin abbreviations

• abbreviations for herbal medicinal treatments

• first ancient recipe book

Speculation of origin, not from Europe as initially assumed, but from Mexico, theorized by ...

• Arthur Tucker

• Rexford Talbert

• plants in the book are similar to the "soap plant" and "viola bicolour" which are native to North America

• the drawing style is similar to drawings found in Mexican codex

Another speculation of the Voynich Manuscript is that it was the drawing of _______ when he was younger.

• Leonardo Da Vinci

• Michaelangelo

• Donatello

• Raphael

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

When was Leonardo da Vinci's birthday?

• evening of April 15th

• evening of March 15th

• evening of May 15th

• evening of June 15th

Kryptos is a sculpture at the ____ created by ______.

• CIA.....Jim Sanborn

• FBI ..... Jim Davis

• UN .... Jim Carters

• MIT .... Jim Patterson

Kryptos ...

• has 4 encrypted messages

• 3 have been solved but the 4th one is one of the most famous unsolved codes in the world.

• has 6 encrypted messages

• 5 have been solved but the 6th one is one of the most famous unsolved codes in the world.

Kryptos ...

• Passage 1 and 2 are solved by using "Vigenere Cipher"

• Passage 3 is decoded using Transposition

• Passage 4 is solved by using Viterbi decoder

• Passage 3 is decoded using Polyalphabetic Substitution Cipher

People who solved part of the Kryptos :

• Jim Gillogly

• David Stein

• Ken Miller

• Monet Friedrich

• Stephen Hawking

Kryptos ...

• when all encrypted messages are solved, they can be combined to make one final riddle

• passage 2 has coordinates for a location 150ft SE of the sculpture

• Passage 3 is a paraphrased quotation from Howard Carter's account of opening King Tut's tomb

• Passage 3 is a paraphrased quotation from Howard Stern's account of opening King Tut's tomb

• Passage 3 is a paraphrased quotation from Howard Carter's account of opening King Ramses' tomb