This silk dress actually contained encoded messages that provide a time portal where we learn about the history of weather forecasting on America’s frontiers in the 1880s Figure 1. The Victorian-era ...

A secret code hidden inside a century-old vintage silk dress that had eluded cryptographers for a decade has finally been cracked, throwing some light on the identity of the woman who owned the attire ...

University of Manitoba research computer analyst Wayne Chan holds a copy of the Silk Dress cryptogram. (Trevor Brine/CBC) "Bismark Omit leafage buck bank." That seemingly random string of words ...

A code breaker recently figured out the code was for telegraphed weather reports. Who owned the dress and why the code was hidden are still unknown. In late 2013, archeologist Sara Rivers Cofield was ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A vintage dress purchased at an antique shop a decade ago contained a hidden code that has baffled people ...

The dress was a silk bustle dress from the 1880s, according to NOAA, and it was found by Sara Rivers Cofield in an antique mall in Maine in 2013. Upon closer inspection, Rivers Cofield discovered the ...

A mysterious code written in the late 1800s gripped researchers for nearly a decade. Two scraps of paper tucked in a hidden pocket inside an antique silk dress contained a jumble of words so strange ...

University of Manitoba research computer analyst holds a copy of the Silk Dress cryptograph. University of Manitoba research computer analyst Wayne Chan holds a copy of the Silk Dress cryptogram.

"Bismark Omit leafage buck bank." That seemingly random string of words appears in something called the Silk Dress cryptogram, 23 handwritten lines on two sheets of crinkled paper that were discovered ...

Bismark Omit leafage buck bank. That seemingly random string of words appears in something called the Silk Dress cryptogram, 23 handwritten lines on two sheets of crinkled paper that were discovered ...