Thursday, 9 July 2020

Inside the Mystery of an Untranslatable 600 Year Old Book

quote [ It’s like Medieval Times, with a kiss of psychedelia. A book in which strange globules float freely, alien plants shimmy across the pages, and female figures slide into a pool of green plasma. Binding them all together? A beautiful, albeit entirely indecipherable script by an unknown author. The “Voynich Manuscript,” is an ancient codex that after even 600 years has yet to be credited to anyone or cracked by the brightest philosophers, mathematicians or computer scientists. ]

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Paracetamol said @ 6:51am GMT on 9th July
There was a supposed breakthrough recently, seeing the text start with the author having digestion problems in a Hebrew variant or something:

Has Yale’s mysterious Voynich Manuscript finally been deciphered?


A German Egyptologist believes he has cracked the code to the enigmatic 15th century illustrated book—but many others have made the same claim in the past and failed



And you can read it in full via Internet Archive


Paracetamol said @ 6:53am GMT on 9th July
There was a supposed breakthrough recently, seeing the text start with the author having digestion problems in a Hebrew variant or something:

Has Yale’s mysterious Voynich Manuscript finally been deciphered?

And you can read it in full via Internet Archive



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Paracetamol said @ 6:51am GMT on 9th July
There was a supposed breakthrough recently, seeing the text start with the author having digestion problems in a Hebrew variant or something:

Has Yale’s mysterious Voynich Manuscript finally been deciphered?

And you can read it in full via Internet Archive




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