The Voynich Manuscript, the "World's Most Mysterious Book" -- A Historian's View -- pt. 2
The Voynich Manuscript -- often called the "world's most mysterious book" -- consists of 116 leaves of parchment covered in outlandish botanical and astrological drawings and thousands of lines of undeciphered text in an unknown language. A century after images of the codex were first published, still not one line has…
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