They managed to decipher every text except the Voynich manuscript.ĭoes the Voynich manuscript really contain a message? Perhaps we are finally learning the truth about the mysterious ancient book no-body can read. military passed some spare time encrypting ancient texts. The Voynich Manuscript, a mysterious late-medieval document filled with illustrations and strange text, has. "Still, I don't know why understanding the text can be important today because, judging by the drawings, it explains in what part of the year you need to sow poppy seed in order to later obtain opium," said the research's co-author, Yuri Orlov, adding that it’s impossible to restore the entire text without vowels because there are various interpretations of the most important words.Īt the end of WWII the U.S. An Ancient Parchment Refuses To Give Up Its Secrets. Woman: This is the Voynich manuscript - a book, allegedly 500 years old, written in an unrecognized script. This ancient book links the two conflicted communities in Book of Fire, and is actually a real medieval book on display in Yale University.
Researchers estimate that about 60 percent of the text is written in English or German, and the other part in one of the Romance languages – possibly Italian or Spanish, or even Latin. Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): Weird root vegetables surround a strange script. Last but by no means least, I should probably mention the ancient Voynich Manuscript the actual Book of Fire in my series which is also depicted on HarperCollins HQ’s brilliant first book cover. The collection of symbols is united in a new text, bestrewed with spaces beforehand. Foreign Language Study / Ancient Languages. After conducting a statistical analysis of the text, Russian experts think the manuscript is encrypted in the following way: vowels and spaces are removed from the text. The Voynich Manuscript - Ebook written by Wilfrid Voynich, Anonyme.