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A medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?
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Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable text It has been called the world’s most mysterious manuscript: a medieval set of pages filled with botanical drawings, astronomical diagrams, pictures of nude
Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable text It has been called the world’s most mysterious manuscript: a medieval set of pages filled with botanical drawings, astronomical diagrams, pictures of nude women and indecipherable text. Claimed at various times to be a book in a lost language, a musical score, an instruction manual or just an elaborate hoax, the so-called Voynich manuscript’s true meaning has defied cryptographers and codebreakers for centuries. Now, new research offers an explanation for why a scholarly consensus over this enduring puzzle has been so hard to come by: not only because its truth is so profoundly mysterious – but because everyone has been reading its pages in the wrong order.
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