Voynich manuscript

It's not, they don't get you to say things for no reason.

And a lot of people are, and there's a lot of mass ri- rituals, and Kelly and I were just talking this morning about the Voynich or the Voynich manuscripts, which are these manuscripts that have come out of absolutely nowhere, and it's talking about putting your moon, it's talking about moon water.

Now, people have taken moon to mean the moon outside, so they're actually taking their period blood, putting it in water, and putting it outside in the moon.

I'm like, "That, that's black magic.

And so in that sense, it's not exactly the same language because you can see even in the text itself that there are these linguistic layers, some of which are significantly older than others.

And you spent a lot of time working on the Voynich manuscript.

What is the most frustrating thing about trying to interpret these type of

texts? So the Voynich manuscript is difficult because no one can read it.

That's the most difficult thing about it.

And that's the most difficult thing because basically we've cracked every single other medieval code.

There have been no codes, no major codes that haven't been solved already since the 19th century.

And I think that the difficult thing about something like the Voynich manuscript is that it seems to obey all the rules that we would expect out of a cipher until you take the text in a more mathematical way.

They're not sure, but it is like a weird book of like plants, animals and language that nobody has really been able to decipher to this point.

All right, well, I've not seen this video, nor have I ever heard of the Voynich manuscript, so I'm definitely looking forward to it, and my responses will be authentic.

Here we go.

The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most unusual medieval books ever discovered.

It's filled with unidentified plants, strange diagrams, and an unknown script that no one has been able to conclusively decode.

So what exactly is the Voynich Manuscript? Why is it so difficult to decode? And what does modern research actually tell us about it? The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex believed to have been created in the early 15th century.

Radiocarbon dating of the parchment places its origin between approximately 1404 and 1438.

The manuscript takes its modern name from Wilfrid Voynich.

Mm.

But like it's a similar looking thing, like Voynich, Elvish, lots of little loops sweeping down underneath, and then on top these little ornaments.

Mm.

And you realize that across the top of the vegvisir symbols, those sort of start to resemble...

Tom Akio reviewed the solution and marked the entry solved, and Church published his full record on 18th of September, including transcription, key tables and scripts that regenerate the reading.

It joins a widening wave of machine-assisted decipherment, from the burned Herculaneum scrolls to the Voynich manuscript and AI tools built for hieroglyphs, and raises an awkward question for archivists, how many documents still sit unread? Marmont, for his part, marched, his army of Dalmatia reached the Danube in time for the second day of Vagram, the largest battle Europe had yet seen, and Napoleon made him a marshal.

Five years later, with the Allies at the gates of Paris, Marmont negotiated with them and marched his corps into their lines, the act that convinced Napoleon to give up his throne.

By Gary Manners.

That's cool.

Off the back of the Phaistos Disc, though, Jess, have you ever heard of something called the Voynich Manuscript?

Yeah.

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