by Jojo Dong

The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most puzzling mysteries in the history of cryptography. First presented to the public by Wilfrid Voynich in 1912, the manuscript is filled with bizarre symbols and delicate drawings. Carbon dating has placed the creation of the book in the fifteenth century. Since then, the manuscript has travelled a long way, and is now housed in the Yale Beinecke Library. It’s believed that the manuscript is written in a lost language to preserve a civilization, or in ciphers to record some scientific findings. Till this day, none of the speculations revolving the Voynich Manuscript has be proven.

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References:

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AI didn’t decode the cryptic Voynich manuscript — it just added to the mystery, The Verge, retrieved from https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/1/16959454/voynich-manuscript-mystery-ai-decoded-debunked

Mysterious Voynich Manuscript Reborn in Facsimile Edition, YaleNews, retrieved from https://news.yale.edu/2016/10/31/mysterious-voynich-manuscript-reborn-facsimile-edition

The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma, D’Imperio, 1978

The Pleasures of Incomprehensibility, The Paris Review, LaPointe, retrieved from https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/12/01/the-pleasures-of-incomprehensibility/

To Crack the Voynich Code, University of Arizona, retrieved from https://www.arizona.edu/news/2011/05/crack-voynich-code

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Page from the Voynich Manuscript, Wikimedia Commons