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The Voynich Manuscript
🕑 Added 2023-01-27 11:15:01 +0000 UTCDirect link: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fbrmabU5X_0
Want to read (or at least, look at) the Voynich Manuscript yourself? You can do so online courtesy of The Internet Archive. Here's a link to where you can view and download a copy of the manuscript for free.
Having paged through it a few times I'm inclined to think that it is indeed some kind of pharmacopeia. That's what most of the drawings seem to suggest, at least.
Could it be a hoax? Possibly... but if so it's a very elaborate one - and I'd be inclined to think there'd be some more exotic or inexplicable drawings if that was the case. What do you think?
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Fascinating Horror
Doesn't look like it - quite often, I think, people use big cultural mysteries like this for publicity. It reminds me of the way that, every few years, someone new claims to have "solved" the mystery of Jack the Ripper. It certainly gets some headlines!
Fascinating Horror
It's another air disaster that's on my list of stories to cover!
Michael Rutherford
How about a video on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961?
Jennifer Durham
Idk if they have fully vetted the research of a recent person who claimed to have “cracked” it. It can’t be done purely with AI because spelling was so varied in early writings, even within a document it may be phonetic. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/06/18/has-yales-mysterious-voynich-manuscript-finally-been-deciphered
