‘The language used was ubiquitous in the Mediterranean during the Medieval period, but it was seldom written in official or important documents because Latin was the language of royalty, church and government. It’s been described as the world’s most mysterious manuscript
#Voynich manuscript decoded code
It is currently housed at Yale University, where it is filed as item MS408 in the Beinecke Library of rare books and manuscripts.Īmong those who have famously attempted to crack the code are Alan Turing and his colleagues at Bletchley Park.
It is named after Wilfrid M Voynich, a Polish book dealer and antiquarian, who purchased the manuscript in 1912. NASA plan to put the first woman on the moon by 2024Ĭyclists ‘actually break traffic laws far less than drivers’Ĭommon painkiller ‘is actually just as addictive as opiates’ The Voynich manuscript is a medieval, handwritten and illustrated text, which has been carbon-dated to the mid-15th century. It’s been described as the most mysterious manuscript on Earth, written in an unknown language and script, and showing images of strange, ‘alien’ plant species.īut the Voynich Manuscript – which has resisted all attempts to decode it for over a century – has finally yielded up its secrets.ĭr Gerard Cheshire took two weeks, using a combination of lateral thinking and ingenuity, to unravel the Voynich Manuscript, which features in the Indiana Jones films. The Voynich manuscript, housed at Yale University, is a medieval, handwritten and illustrated text.
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