A fifteenth century manuscript contains an unknown language that has never been deciphered
The Voynich Manuscript is a 15th-century codex filled with bizarre illustrations and an undeciphered script that has defeated the world's best cryptographers for over a century.
Carbon-dated to between 1404 and 1438, the Voynich Manuscript contains 240 pages of vellum featuring unknown plants, celestial diagrams, and bathing women. Since its discovery by book dealer Wilfrid Voynich in 1912, it has been scrutinized by codebreakers from both World Wars. Analysis shows the text follows Zipf's Law, a statistical pattern found in all natural languages, suggesting it is not a random hoax.
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