Inside the Archive of Dr Audrius Plioplys

After MAPS, Saulius Fomenko flew to Chicago and travelled on to Michiana around 17 March. Dr Audrius Plioplys met him there and invited him to stay at his home. They recorded an extended interview the following day.

The conversation covered Dr Plioplys’s career, child neurology, autism research, other scientific work and art. It offered a chance to record both the work itself and its context in the author’s own account.

One interview topic was the Voynich Manuscript. Dr Plioplys discussed his interpretation of its origin and purpose, including possible connections to medieval medicine and culture. This is a proposed interpretation: Yale’s Beinecke Library, which holds the manuscript, continues to describe its text as undeciphered.

They later travelled to the Lithuanian Research Center in Chicago, where Dr Plioplys’s archive is preserved. Several days of work followed with decades of scientific, medical, artistic and personal material.

Saulius reviewed and digitised archival material, including scientific publications, medical records, research files and correspondence. The photographs show the working environment, the organisation of the archive and artworks; patient records are not published on this website.

The visit became part of LukoLab’s documentation work. Preserving records and preparing them for potential scientific evaluation are separate stages: research would require its own assessment of data-use permissions, methodology and ethical requirements.