Description: Helping the world to break historical ciphers, one microproject at a time...
Helping the world to break historical ciphers, one microproject at a time…
Here is a link to a palaeographic sample page, containing 1000×1000 swatches of writing from every page of quires 1 through 8 (“Q1” to “Q8”), i.e. the first “herbal” section.
Around 1885, a short pamphlet was published in Lynchburg, Tennessee: it contained a story about a young man called Thomas Beale who had allegedly deposited a sizeable treasure (worth approx $63m in 2011) in two deposits in 1819 and 1821. According to the pamphlet, Beale left behind three ciphertexts detailing where the treasure was buried Read More ...