Richard Bean cracked the 400 year Philosophers' Stone cipher over two weekends - a podcast by ABC Radio

It's been an unsolvable puzzle which could unlock the elixir of life, a cure for all ailments and turn base metals into gold.

But now an Australian research fellow and data scientist has taken just two weekends to crack the 400 year old code to unlock the recipe... so what comes next?

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