Apr 30, 2014 22:00:00

A bounty will be given to the mysterious cryptanalysis written in the book 'Odyssey' over 500 years ago.

The earliest work of Western literature, '

Odyssey ,' left by the bard Homer at the end of the 8th century BC, is an ancient Greek epic that has been translated many times and sold worldwide, and valuable translations are stored in the library. It has been saved. The library of the University of Chicago in the United States also stores the ' 1504 version of Odusseya ', but it was found that a mysterious code and what seems to be written on that page, and the donor of the book was able to break the code. I made a bounty.

Identify mystery text, win $ 1000
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/identify-mystery-text-win-1000/index.html

The mysterious code found in the 1504 version of Odyssey at the University of Chicago was handwritten next to the text, like a commentary. There are only 2 pages out of a total of 612 pages that contain encryption.

The image below is the actual page containing the code in question. You can see that characters that are indistinguishable from any word are written on both sides and the bottom of the text.

The person who donated the 1504 version of Odyssey to the library in Chicago was Mr. MC Lang, who said that the code had already been written when the book was obtained. Mr. Lang predicts that 'the mysterious code is a French

cryptanalysis of the 19th century', but there is no way to prove it, and a prize of 1000 dollars (about 100,000 yen) is applied to break the code. I recruited people to decipher it through the University of Chicago library.

On

the Internet bulletin board Reddit , a poster who said, 'This looks like a character called'quick script '' appeared. A quick script is one of the alphabets created to replace English, and the poster said, 'I can apply the code written in Odyssey to the quick script, but I do not understand the meaning of the sentence. The quick script was invented. It was written in the 19th century, so I think the script was written long after the book was published. '

by Paul Tremblay

The University of Chicago Library announced on April 28 that it will no longer accept cryptanalysis. The closing of the reception means that someone who has broken the code has appeared, and the University of Chicago Library says that 'the results will be announced soon.'

There are many codes in the world, such as ' Phaistos Disc ' created around 1600 BC and ' Cicada 3301 ' on the Internet, and many of them are still unsolved . .. The University of Chicago is waiting for the announcement of how the 1504 Odyssey code will be resolved.