So the other day, Sunday morning I think it was, I woke from a dream in which my wife was asking me, “Who is iang?” She was pronouncing it as a word, but in my mind I saw it spelled that way. I take dreams as hints, so I immediately cracked open the laptop (what? we don’t ALL sleep with a laptop within reach?) and opened a Google window, typing in iang. Imagine my surprise when the second entry is directly relevant to recent experience and reading:
iang.org
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Unsolved and Solved Ciphers
Elonka maintains a list of well-known unsolved codes and ciphers. A couple of the better-known unsolved ancient historical scripts are also thrown in, since they tend to come up during any discussion of unsolved codes.
Elonka’s list includes a mention of the fascinating Voynich Manuscript, an old unsolved illustrated manuscript. Voynich is very similar to the Codex Seraphinianus in that it is also illustrated and unsolved. I actually own a copy of the Codex. I found it interesting that Elonka doesn’t mention the Codex, and emailed to mention that fact. No response yet.
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