Plots, love letters and remedies: The medieval secrets being revealed by AI
A 400-year-old coded text found at the Vatican Library is among the historic documents and messages that are being cracked with the help of artificial intelligence.
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Plots, love letters and remedies: The medieval secrets being revealed by AI28 May 2026ShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleSandrine CeurstemontBeáta Megyesi(Credit: Beáta Megyesi)Historic messages and documents obscured by incomprehensible ciphers can be found in libraries and archives all over the world. Artificial intelligence is helping historians crack open these mysterious texts.Deep in the archives of the Vatican library, a mysterious hand-written book, scrawled with strange symbols, had lain unread for more than 400 years. Its cryptic pages apparently concealed secret remedies "for affections of the human body", according to some text scratched inside the cover.
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