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Voynich manuscript
I figure with the amount of interest from folks here about puzzles, Enigma, etc., that there are people on this board that are familiar with the Voynich manuscript. If you are not familiar with it, a quick Google search will provide more than enough to get acquainted with it.
I had heard about it a long time ago, now with "The DaVinci Code" and it's imitators coming out, I decided to look into it again. Another reason was one of my uncle's interest in it as well. He's retired from the "No Such Agency", and I figured if anyone would have figured this out, they would have. To me, it is an interesting pursuit, and it mixes together a lot of various types of intrigue: alchemy, religious secrets, early science, etc. Any one else familiar with this book, and care to share their thoughts?
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05-16-2006, 04:48 PM
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The little bit I've looked into it, I'm convinced it is a made-up language (I did the same thing as a kid after reading Tolkein) that this person was having fun with. |
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01-24-2014, 10:07 AM
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A new analysis shows that the language might not be made up or a difficult cipher. It is possibly a dialect of an Aztec language.
http://cms.herbalgram.org/press/2014...anuscript.html
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05-15-2019, 01:43 PM
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05-15-2019, 01:57 PM
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Seems like there's too many coincidences in there for this guy not to have cracked it, but pretty incredible that this is supposedly written in a language that is 2000 years younger than other languages (or systems) that we've cracked, is an ancestor to a whole ton of existing languages and contains so many words that are the same or similar in existing languages that tens of millions of people still speak and yet it's taken this long to get to this point.
I'd love to know what smarter people think. Seems like there's a lot of skepticism on twitter already. |
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05-15-2019, 02:07 PM
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That's pretty damn cool 
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05-15-2019, 04:45 PM
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Back to uncracked it seems
No, someone hasn’t cracked the code of the mysterious Voynich manuscript | Ars Technica
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