LOS ANGELES ? Scientists in California and Sweden have solved a 250-year-old mystery ? a coded manuscript written by a secret society.
The University of Southern California announced Tuesday that researchers had broken the Copiale Cipher ? the writing used in a 105-page 18th century document from Germany.
Kevin Knight, of USC, and Beata Megyesi and Christiane Schaefer, of Uppsala University, did the work.
They used a statistical computer program to decipher part of the manuscript, which was found in East Berlin after the Cold War and is now in a private collection.
The book, written in symbols and Roman letters, details complicated initiation ceremonies of a society fascinated by ophthalmology. They include making mystical signs and plucking a hair from a candidate's eyebrow. The convoluted text swears candidates to loyalty and secrecy.
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