AI Cracks a 400-Year-Old Borg Cipher, Revealing Hidden Medieval Remedies

AI speeds up deciphering encrypted historical texts—like the Vatican's Borg cipher—by transcribing and decoding handwriting and symbols into digital texts, uncovering astonishing remedies and secrets once kept in archives. The Descrypt project and tools like Transkribus aim to unify transcription and decryption, enabling researchers (and the public) to unlock coded letters, diplomatic notes, and even unknown scripts, potentially rewriting parts of history and expanding access to ancient writing systems.