From cryptic messages in front of the CIA building, to the mysterious Taman Shud, these are 12 BIGGEST Riddles Never Solved 1\r
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# 7 The Beale Papers / Beale Ciphers \r
The Beale Papers are a pamphlet that was anonymously published in Virginia containing three ciphers that once decoded, would reveal the location of buried treasure worth tens of millions of dollars. The first text describes the location, the second ciphertext describes the content of the treasure, and the third text lists the name of the treasures owners and their next of kin. Of all of these texts, only the second one describing the content has been solved. However, the other two ciphers remain completely unsolved, and a number of anomalies suggest that the whole thing might just be a huge unsolvable prank.\r
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# 6 Voynich Manuscript\r
This is named after the Polish-American bookseller Wilfrid M Voynich who acquired it in 1912. It is a 240-page book written in a language or script that is completely unknown to anyone. Its pages are also filled with colorful drawings and diagrams, odd plants that dont seem to match any ual plants we see on Earth. Carbon dating revealed that the book was made sometime between 1404 and 1438, but no one knows by whom or where the original person was from. Some believe that it is an old book about ancient medicines, astronomy, and alchemy but the language is completely unintelligible.\r
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# 5 McCormick Cipher\r
In 1999, two written documents were found in the pockets of the murder victim named Ricky McCormick. His body was found in a cornfield in Missouri off Route 367, partly decomposed. After the FBI failed to solve the encrypted notes in his pocket they issued a public appeal for help in solving the code. However, the code itself has come into criticism, as McCormicks family states that he was always writing nonsense onto scraps of paper and there was no way he was smart enough to write in code.\r
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# 4 Tamam Shud\r
The Tamam Shud case also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man is an unsolved case of the unidentified man found dead at 6:30 AM. The victim washed up on a beach just south of Adelaide in Australia and had a piece of paper sewn into his trousers that read “Tamam Shud” which means “ended” or “finished” in Persian. This scrap paper had been from a copy of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - a collection of poems attributed to the 12th-century poet Omar Khayyam. The Tamam case gained public attention into the early 50s, but it was never solved.\r
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# 3 Phaistos Disk\r
The Phaistos disk is a 4,000-year-old clay disk that was discovered in 1908 on the Greek island of Crete. But no one seems to have been able to translate the mysterious language inscribed on the disk, which dates back to 1700 B.C. at the height of the Minoan civilization. The disk can be read in a spiral direction from outside rim to the inside. It was unsolved for hundreds of years, until new when a professor claimed to have cracked the hieroglyphics and postulated that it has an inscription of a prayer to a Minoan goddess.\r
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# 2 Zodiac Killer \r
The Zodiac Killer is a serial killer ive during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He became a high-profile criminal with the publication of his mysterious letters in newspapers. These letters included four mysterious cryptograms written in an unbreakable cipher. Of these four only one has been allegedly solved. The identity of the killer to this day is still unknown, but the California Department of Justice has maintained an open case file on him since 1969. The encoded letters might be a clue to his true identity or location, but since we have never broken the code, we have also never found the Zodiac Killer. His true identity, as well as the key to the puzzles left behind, is still one of the worlds greatest unsolved riddles.\r
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# 1 Shugborough Inscription\r
Hidden on the grounds of the Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire, England is the Shugborough Monument. The monument features in the center a relief image of Nicolas Poussins painting called the Shepherds of Arcadia. The most interesting part of this mysterious sculpture is the inscription right below the painting which features aof letters. The eight letters O U O S V A V V framed by D and M slightly below those letters. While, the monument was built sometime between 1748 and 1763, over 250 years ago, the cipher has remained completely unsolved. Its often credited with being one of the worlds top uncracked ciphertexts. \r
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