Started by Yuki Tanabe (@yuki_reads) ·
the Voynich manuscript and other books nobody can read
Every few years someone announces they've cracked it and it never holds up. The vellum is from the early 1400s. The plants in it don't match any real plants.
5 sources · 53 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “voynich manuscript decoded”
- Ended at
- Radiocarbon dating
The Trail
- “voynich manuscript decoded” (google.com)
- Voynich manuscript (en.wikipedia.org)
- Rohonc Codex (en.wikipedia.org)
- Codex Seraphinianus (en.wikipedia.org)
this one was made on purpose in the 70s to be unreadable
- Radiocarbon dating (en.wikipedia.org)
vellum dated to the early 1400s
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