Voynich Manuscript Decoded | The Mysterious Book Finally Solved?

For 600 years the Voynich Manuscript has stumped scholars, cryptographers, physicists, and computer scientists. Now, a researcher in Germany has claimed to have finally decoded the most mysterious book in the world.

The Voynich Manuscript is a 240-page medieval codex written in an indecipherable language, full of bizarre drawings of strange plants, astrological symbols and... lots of... naked women.

The Voynich Manuscript defies classification and has also defied comprehension. Cryptologists, FBI operatives, respected medievalists, mathematic and scientific scholars, skilled linguists... they've all been left stumped. Even Alan Turing took a crack at it and came up short.

It's written from left to right and although it's never been "officially" deciphered, there's definitely a structure to it. Researchers have concluded that the language has 20 to 25 distinct letters but nobody has been able to figure out how the letters fit together.

According to cryptanalyst Elizabeth Friedman in 1962, anyone who attempts to translate it is "doomed to utter frustration."

Let's find out why.

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[dennisgriffith]

Can you please do "The Book of Enoch"? I like how you tell the myths and then give the facts. Thanks

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Today I learned that if I had watched this 3 years ago, I would have known I was 3 blocks away from the Vonyich Manuscript. The timing of finding this awesome show. I can't get enough! Thank you for presenting it in such a gently inclusive way. Brilliant!

[NPazable]

The idea of it being an ancient medical text would hold water considering doctors to this day can't write legibly

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[BENZ]

Great video, I saw a tv show last night on this manuscript which brought me here. I wonder if the images were ever given or shown to truly insane people to look at, maybe a rational mind cannot see what an insane mind can. Incredible mystery.

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[gretzkyyy]

Lessons learned from this video:
- Google translate everything
- we should all write gibberish on paper in hopes of intriguing the minds of future cryptopgraphers

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[jenniferfields]

I wonder if they've considered this book to be the work of an alchemist. In the early days of alchemy, practitioners were known to not only keep detailed journals of their experiments, but also to record them in a secret code language so competitors couldn't steal and duplicate their work. They would form tight-knit pods no more than 4 alchemists in the general area. The small group would each learn the language so they could safely communicate only each other and still keep their research safe. The time frame fits, as does the herbs and flowers illustrated. I think this manuscript may be an alchemist's journal...Not that I can do anything about it. I'm just wondering if any of the super-smart people looked at that angle.

[dunningkruger]

New sub as well. I’m 65 yrs and have an old library of...just about everything you cover. This episode reminded me of a book my brother found in 1981. It was 100 years old and called OAHSPE. A "channeling" by Angels through a Dentist in Boston. It is....very interesting. Written in the times of the Ok Corral, it describes nuclear powered anti gravity spaceships, talks of men and Angels, and has chapters written by Thor, Osiris, etc, who all say that "they were once mortals". There is a section on science that is interesting to say the least. My collection.of antique books is extensive, and I've found no other book that was "less verbose" in explaining our purpose. No "Steiner-Blavatsky" nonsense with confusing dialogue, just simple history and future combined. You...cannot read this book "overnight", but I promise you will be intrigued. Those adherents to the dogmatic religions will find this off those who are open minded and spiritual will have difficulty putting it down. Thanks for the great show, and I hope someday you could do a number on this...as it has done a number on me. BTW- this is the first mention of the creation of planets and galaxies by centrifugal and frictional force I have seen. "The Dust Devil is the sign of how the planets and galaxies were created, driving the elements to a fiery center"(sic)

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[vast]

Would be a bit sophisticated for a medieval hoax: making up an alphabet, writing random nonsense in it, but keeping it consistent and having statistical features of a natural language. Looks like someone very much knew what he wanted to write.

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