1.Voynich Manuscript
Named after the Polish-American antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich, who acquired it in 1912, the Voynich Manuscript
is a detailed 240-page book written in a language or script that is
completely unknown. Its pages are also filled with colorful drawings of
strange diagrams, odd events and plants that do not seem to match 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 carbon dating has revealed that its pages were made
sometime between 1404 and 1438. It has been called "the world's most
mysterious manuscript."
Theories abound about the origin and nature of the manuscript. Some
believe it was meant to be a pharmacopoeia, to address topics in
medieval or early modern medicine. Many of the pictures of herbs and
plants hint that it many have been some kind of textbook for an
alchemist. The fact that many diagrams appear to be of astronomical
origin, combined with the unidentifiable biological drawings, has even
led some fanciful theorists to propose that the book may have an alien
origin.
One thing most theorists agree on is that the book is unlikely to be a
hoax, given the amount of time, money and detail that would have been
required to make it.
2. Kryptos
Kryptos is a mysterious encrypted sculpture designed by artist Jim
Sanborn which sits right outside the headquarters of the CIA in Langley,
Va. It's so mysterious, in fact, that not even the CIA has completely cracked the code.
The sculpture contains four inscriptions, and although three of them
have been cracked, the fourth remains elusive (Read what the first three inscriptions say here).
In 2006 Sanborn let slip that there are clues in the first inscriptions
to the last one, and in 2010 he released another clue: the Letters
64-69 NYPVTT in part 4 encode the text BERLIN.
Think you have what it takes to solve it?
3.Beale Ciphers
The Beale Ciphers
are a set of three ciphertexts that supposedly reveal the location of
one of the grandest buried treasures in U.S. history: thousands of
pounds of gold, silver and jewels. The treasure was originally obtained
by a mysterious man named Thomas Jefferson Beale in 1818 while
prospecting in Colorado.
Of the three ciphertexts, only the second one has been cracked.
Interestingly, the U.S. Declaration of Independence turned out to be the
key — a curious fact given that Beale shares his name with the author
of the Declaration of Independence.
The cracked text does reveal the county where the treasure was buried:
Bedford County, Va., but its exact location is likely encrypted in one
of the other uncracked ciphers. To this day, treasure hunters scour the
Bedford County hillsides digging (often illegally) for the loot.
4.Phaistos Disc
he mystery of the Phaistos Disc
is a story that sounds like something out of an Indiana Jones movie.
Discovered by Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier in 1908 in the Minoan
palace-site of Phaistos, the disc is made of fired clay and contains
mysterious symbols that may represent an unknown form of hieroglyphics.
It is believed that it was designed sometime in the second millennium
BC.
Some scholars believe that the hieroglyphs resemble symbols of Linear A
and Linear B, scripts once used in ancient Crete. The only problem?
Linear A also eludes decipherment.
Today the disc remains one of the most famous puzzles of archaeology.
5.Shugborough inscription
Look from afar at the 18th-century Shepherd's Monument in
Staffordshire, England, and you might take it as nothing more than a
sculpted re-creation of Nicolas Poussin's famous painting, “Arcadian
Shepherds.” Look closer, though, and you'll notice a curious sequence of
letters: DOUOSVAVVM — a code that has eluded decipherment for over 250 years.
Though the identity of the code carver remains a mystery, some have
speculated that the code could be a clue left behind by the Knights
Templar about the whereabouts of the Holy Grail.
Many of the world's greatest minds have tried to crack the code and failed, including Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin.
6.Tamam Shud case
Considered to be one of Australia's most profound mysteries, the Tamam Shud Case
revolves around an unidentified man found dead in December 1948 on
Somerton beach in Adelaide, Australia. Aside from the fact that the man
could never be identified, the mystery deepened after a tiny piece of
paper with the words "Tamam Shud" was found in a hidden pocket sewn
within the dead man's trousers. (It is also referred to as "Taman
Shud.")
The phrase translates as "ended" or "finished" and is a phrase used on
the last page of a collection of poems called “The Rubaiyat” of Omar
Khayyam. Adding to the mystery, a copy of Khayyam's collection was later
found that contained a scribbled code in it believed to have been left
by the dead man himself.
Due to the content of the Khayyam poem, many have come to believe that
the message may represent a suicide note of sorts, but it remains
uncracked, as does the case.
7.The Wow! Signal
One summer night in 1977, Jerry Ehman, a volunteer for SETI, or the
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, may have become the first man
ever to receive an intentional message from an alien world.
Ehman was scanning radio waves from deep space, hoping to randomly come
across a signal that bore the hallmarks of one that might be sent by
intelligent aliens, when he saw his measurements spike.
The signal lasted for 72 seconds, the longest period of time it could
possibly be measured by the array that Ehman was using. It was loud and
appeared to have been transmitted from a place no human has gone before:
in the constellation Sagittarius near a star called Tau Sagittarii, 120
light-years away.
Ehman wrote the words "Wow!" on the original printout of the signal, thus its title as the "Wow! Signal."
All attempts to locate the signal again have failed, leading to much controversy and mystery about its origins and its meaning.
8.Zodiac letters
The Zodiac letters are a series of four encrypted messages
believed to have been written by the famous Zodiac Killer, a serial
killer who terrorized residents of the San Francisco Bay Area in the
late 1960s and early 1970s. The letters were likely written as a way to
taunt journalists and police, and though one of the messages has been
deciphered, the three others remain uncracked.
The identity of the Zodiac Killer also remains a mystery, though no Zodiac murders have been identified since 1970.
9.Georgia Guidestones
The Georgia Guidestones,
sometimes referred to as the "American Stonehenge," is a granite
monument erected in Elbert County, Ga., in 1979. The stones are engraved
in eight languages — English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic,
Chinese and Russian — each relaying 10 "new" commandments for "an Age of
Reason." The stones also line up with certain astronomical features.
Though the monument contains no encrypted messages, its purpose and
origin remain shrouded in mystery. They were commissioned by a man who
has yet to be properly identified, who went by the pseudonym of R.C.
Christian.
Of the 10 commandments, the first one is perhaps the most
controversial: "Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance
with nature." Many have taken it to be a license to cull the human
population down to the specified number, and critics of the stones have
called for them to be destroyed. Some conspiracy theorists even believe
they may have been designed by a "Luciferian secret society" calling for
a new world order.
10.Rongorongo
Rongorongo is a system of mysterious glyphs
discovered written on various artifacts on Easter Island. Many believe
they represent a lost system of writing or proto-writing and could be
one of just three or four independent inventions of writing in human
history.
The glyphs remain undecipherable, and their true messages — which some
believe could offer hints about the perplexing collapse of the
statue-building Easter Island civilization — may be lost forever.
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