"For over 600 years, the Voynich Manuscript has remained one of history’s most significant undeciphered texts. Previous decryption attempts failed because they relied on single-language solutions, overlooking the manuscript’s intricate, multi-layered structure. This paper presents compelling evidence that the Voynich Manuscript is not a random assortment of symbols but an encoded text employing linguistic layering, hydroglyphic modifications, and celestial-based cipher shifts by identifying these encoded mechanisms—specifically, a moon-cycle shifting system that alters the text according to planetary alignments."

https://www.academia.edu/127990250/The_H...dge_System

Short article with some oriental insights:

https://www.chemeurope.com/en/encycloped...+life.html

"This essay considers the implications of a shift in focus from ideas to practices in the history of alchemy. On the one hand, it is argued, this new attention to practice highlights the diversity of ways that early modern Europeans engaged alchemy, ranging from the literary to the entrepreneurial and artisanal, as well as the broad range of social and cultural spaces that alchemists inhabited. At the same time, however, recent work has demonstrated what most alchemists shared-namely, a penchant for reading, writing, making, and doing, all at the same time."

https://colab.ws/articles/10.1086%2F660142

"History: Fiction or Science? is the most explosive tractate on history that was ever written however, every theory it contains, no matter how unorthodox, is backed by solid scientific data. The book contains 446 graphs and illustrations, list of 1534 sources, copies of ancient manuscripts, and countless facts attesting to the falsity of the chronology used nowadays. The dominating historical discourse was essentially crafted in the XVI century from a rather contradictory jumble of sources such as innumerable copies of ancient Latin and Greek manuscripts whose originals had vanished in the Dark Ages and the allegedly irrefutable proof offered by late mediaeval astronomers, resting upon the power of ecclesial authorities."

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/291362...2913621074

Lecture by David Brafman 

Chemical Rainbows and Liquid Crystal Souls: The Spirit of Alchemy in the History of Art

"In medieval Europe, alchemy was known as the Great Art; in Islam, it was simply "the Art." In this lecture, David Brafman, associate curator of rare books at the Getty Research Institute and curator of the exhibition “The Art of Alchemy,” explores this mysterious and misunderstood subject and its influence on artistic practice and expression from antiquity to the present day."

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZGp-Rc22b6I?t=1991s

Old (1937) article from Nature.

"In a reprint from Osiris (2, 220; 1936), W. J. Wilson, of the Library of Congress, Washington, deals with a treatise copied by Arnaldus de Bruxella at Naples between 1473 and 1490, arid purchased by Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, in 1881 for the price of ten dollars. It is a compendium of chemical and alchemical recipes of a type fairly well known through other manuscripts of similar date in Paris and elsewhere."

Full text:

https://www.nature.com/articles/139022b0

Paywalled.

"An explosion of printed books and treatises on medicine in sixteenth-century Europe inspired new intense debates about medicine and its relation to the divine order of nature. Both trained and untrained healers engaged in close observation of the natural world, but good doctors did not rely solely on empirical observation—they also took into consideration invisible forces such as the soul."

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.100...-78082-0_6

With Billy Carson & Timothy Hogan.

"Attributed to Thoth, the ancient Egyptian god of knowledge, these tablets have been revered as a source of divine insight and transformative power. In this video, we explore the rich tapestry of myths and legends surrounding the Emerald Tablets, tracing their path from the sands of Egypt to the jungles of Mesoamerica."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAuGvV6qcXA

"From the enigmatic world of ancient Chinese alchemy comes a legacy of 30 REMARKABLE inventions that have profoundly shaped science, medicine, and culture".

Including the umbrella, the parachute and the crossbow apparently...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqtqbg1qsvU

Marathon Video From Sophic Books:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAa1lXL3D64

https://www.sophicbooks.com/