10 of the greatest unresolved mysteries in the world

Voynich manuscript

Named after the Polish-American antique bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich, who acquired it in 1912, the Voynich manuscript is a detailed book of 240 pages written in a language or a script which is completely unknown. Its pages are also filled with colorful drawings with strange diagrams, strange events and plants which do not seem to correspond to any known species, adding to the intrigue of the document and the difficulty of deciphering it. The original author of the manuscript remains unknown, but the dating in carbon revealed that its pages were carried out between 1404 and 1438. It was called “the most mysterious manuscript in the world”.

Theories abound on the origin and nature of the manuscript. Some, like the historian and artist Nicholas Gibbs, believe that it was supposed to be a pharmacopoeia, to tackle subjects in medieval medicine or at the beginning. In a test for the Times literary supplement, Gibbs writes that it is “a reference book of remedies selected from the standard treaties of the medieval period, a manual of instructions for health and well-being of the most well to make women in society, which was very suitable for a single individual.”

Many photos of herbs and plants suggest that the manuscript may have been a kind of manual for an alchemist. The fact that many diagrams seem to be of astronomical origin, combined with non -identifiable organic drawings, has even led fanciful theorists to propose that the book can have an extraterrestrial origin.

Most theorists agree that it is unlikely that the book will be a hoax, given the time, money and details necessary to do so.

Kryptos

Kryptos is a mysterious encrypted sculpture designed by artist Jim Sanborn who is just outside the CIA siege in Langley, Virginia. It is so mysterious, in fact, that even the CIA did not completely fell the code.

The sculpture contains four inscriptions, and although three of them have been cracked, the Forth remains elusive. In 2006, Sanborn let slide that there are clues in the first inscriptions to the last, and in 2010, he published another index: the letters 64–69 NYPVTT in the fourth code the Berlin text.

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Beale Ciphers

The Beale Ciphers are a set of three quantified contexts which supposedly reveal the location of one of the largest buried treasures in American history: thousands of books of gold, silver and jewelry worth around 43 million dollars in 2017. The treasure was initially obtained by a mysterious man named Thomas Jefferson Beale in 1818 while doing Prospecting.

Of the three quantified texts, only the second was cracked (photo). Interestingly, the American declaration of independence turned out to be the key – a curious fact since Beale shares his name with the author of the Declaration of Independence.

The cracked text reveals the county where the treasure was buried: the county of Bedford, Virginia, but its exact location is probably encrypted in one of the other figures without breakage. To date, treasure hunters travel the hills of the County Bedford digging (often illegally) for the booty.

Disk paste

The mystery of the Phaistos disc is a story that looks like something of an Indiana Jones film. Discovered by the Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier in 1908 on the site of the Minoen Palais of Phaistos, the disc is in clay drawn and contains mysterious symbols which can represent an unknown form of hieroglyphs. We think it was designed in the second millennium before JC

Some researchers believe that hieroglyphs resemble symbols of Linear A and Linear B scripts, formerly used in ancient Crete. The only problem? Linear also escaped deciphering.

Today, the disc remains one of the most famous puzzles in archeology.

Inscription of Shugborough

Look from the monument of the 18th century shepherd in the staffshire, in England, and you could consider it nothing more than a sculpted recreation of the famous painting of Nicolas Poussin, “Shepherds Arcadian”. Look more closely, however, and you will notice a curious sequence of letters: Douosvavvm – a code that has escaped solutions for more than 250 years.

Although the identity of the Carver Code remains a mystery, some have hypothesized that the code could be a clue left by the Templars of the Knights on the fate of the Holy Grail.

Many of the biggest minds in the world have tried to break the code and failed, including Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin.

Tamam Shud Case

Considered one of the deepest mysteries in Australia, the Tamam Shud affair revolves around an unidentified man found dead in December 1948 on Someton beach in Adelaide, Australia. Aside from the fact that man could never be identified, the mystery deepened after a small piece of paper with the words “Tamam Shud” was found in a sewn pocket sewn in the pants of the dead man. (He is also called “Taman Shud”.)

The sentence translates into “finished” or “finished” and is a sentence used on the last page of a collection of poems called “Le Rubaiyat” by Omar Khayyam. Adding to the mystery, a copy of the Khayyam collection was then found which contained a scribble code (illustrated) which would have been left by the dead man himself.

Due to the content of Khayyam’s poem, many have come to believe that the message can represent a kind of suicide tickets, but it remains without cratelet, just like the case.

WOW! Signal

A summer evening in 1977, Jerry Ehman, volunteer for Seti, or the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, may have become the first man to have received an intentional message from an extraterrestrial world. Ehman scanned deep space radio waves, hoping to meet a signal that bore the characteristics of the one who could be sent by intelligent foreigners, when he saw his measures increase.

The signal lasted 72 seconds, the longest period of time could be measured by the table that Ehman used. It was noisy and seemed to have been transmitted from a place that no human preceded: in the constellation of Sagittarius near a star called Tau Sagittarii, at 120 light years.

Ehman wrote the words “wow!” On the original signal printing, so its title of “Wow! Signal”.

All attempts to locate the signal have again failed, which led to great controversy and a mystery about its origins and its meaning. In 2017, a team of researchers suggested that the signal came from a previously unidentified comet.

Zodiac letters

Zodiac letters are a series of four encrypted messages that would have been written by the famous Zodiac killer, a serial killer who terrorized residents of the San Francisco Bay region in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Letters were probably written as a means of taunting journalists and the police, and although one of the messages was deciphered, as the other. This letter, remain without cramps.

The identity of the Zodiac Killer also remains a mystery, although no zodiac murder has been identified since 1970.

Georgie Guidestones

The Georgia Guidestones, sometimes called “American Stonehenge”, is a monument of granite erected in the county of Elbert, in Georgia, in 1979. The stones are engraved in eight languages – English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arab, Chinese and Russian comments – in the Spanish of 10 “new” commandments for “an age of reason”. “. The stones also line up with certain astronomical characteristics.

Although the monument does not contain any encrypted message, its objective and its origin remain wrapped in mystery. They were commanded by a man who has not yet been properly identified, who went by the pseudonym of RC Christian.

Of the 10 commandments, the first may be the most controversial: “maintaining humanity less than 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature”. Many considered that it was a license to bring down the human population to the specified number, and the criticism of the stones called for destroying them. Some conspiracy theorists even think that they may have been designed by a “Luciferian secret society” calling for a new world order.

Newsletters

Rongorongo is a system of mysterious glyphs discovered written on various artefacts on Easter Island. Many believe that they represent a lost writing system or proto-writing and could be one of the three or four independent inventions of writing in human history.

The glyphs remain indecipherable and their real messages – which, according to some, could offer advice on the perplexed collapse of the civilization of Easter island of construction of the statue – can be lost forever.