Wednesday, May 14, 2003

The Most Mysterious Manuscript In The World


It's called the Voynich Manuscript, after Wilfrid M. Voynich, who discovered it tucked away in a Jesuit college library in Frascati, Italy in 1912. It may date as far back as the 13th century, and contains about 240 pages of illustrations and text written in a language still untranslated to this day. Some purport it to be a hoax, while others have devoted much of their lives to cracking its mysteries. Click here if you just want a brief overview, and here if you want to wallow in all things Voynichian.

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