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Translations from Arabic and the First Universities

Europe and the entire West owe much to Medieval Islamic culture. From the beginning of the 12th century, in fact, and until the middle of the 13th, an enormous quantity of documents of Islamic origin were translated from Arabic into Latin.…
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Decrypted or not decrypted? That is the question! And the mistery continues

Reputed to be the discovery of the century – just recently press articles excitedly announced that one of the most mysterious ancient texts in the world, the Voynich manuscript had finally been decrypted after more than a century of relentless…