The Ancient Book Nobody Alive Can Read

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Writing: Steven Rix
Editing: Matt Murray / Ocular Visuals

[mersito]

Imagine being able to decipher this book and the first line says: This book is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legend, more on that at the end of the book.

[cullent]

Imagine how many other books like this were lost in the Burning of the Library of Alexandria

[handsomeb.wonderful]

I'm reading a horror book in braille. Something bads about to happen, I can feel it.

[murasakirin]

I've always thought that the handwriting of the manuscript is truly a work of art. Its so neat and smooth that I always wondered if the author wrote like that in potentially other languages as well. I feel pictures don't do it justice. Just once in my life i wish I could see it first hand with my own eyes. Sadly I highly doubt that'd ever happen.

[xPancakeslyf]

I feel like this is exactly what's going to happen to the alien species that finds the 'Golden Record' flying through space lol

[theq]

I'm gonna become a famous scientist just so I can write a book full of bs and weird symbols and have it taken seriously to annoy historians for the next 600 years.

[davidperets]

patient shows the Voynich manuscript to his doctor
doctor: "I can't read this"
Patient: "How does it feel?"
Doctor: "Very frustrating"

[angrykatrants]

I bought this book for my classroom and it was so fun to go thru it together! We came up with ideas and theories to the meaning of each page! Really awesome text. Since it’s accessible to no one, it’s accessible to everyone. Pretty cool.

[thoumotherdearest]

Imagine we decode it and it’s just this guys diary he writes in every time he trips on acid.

[Thoughty]

I just want to make clear, because there is still a lot of confusion surrounding this: The recent claim you may have seen has not yet been independently verified and when all previous claims have been independently verified they have proved false. So it may have been translated but we still can't definitively say that it has.

[oxbaki]

The dude probably just made his own secret language for some of his friends and made a book literally just to annoy the hell out of people in the future

[faze_buendia]

Great video as per usual! I LOVE learning about the Voynich Manuscript, it's so fascinating!! Regarding when Thoughty was discussing how new theories are brought up by new young scientists; then are batted down by older scientists, saying something like 'batting their theories out of the park' I got confused about what Thoughty was saying. Usually, the phrase "hitting/batting it out of the park" is a good thing. It refers to hitting a Homerun in baseball, literally hitting the baseball over the fence, and hitting one out of the entire park is a way of saying even better than expected, totally nailed it.
I only explain because I realized that Baseball is known as America's favorite pastime, wasn't sure if it's a sport that's been adopted in other countries; which would explain why ppl in other countries would be unfamiliar with 'baseball phrases'.

[SynthLikeKnives]

Imagine the smile you'd have on your face in the afterlife, trolling many people for the last 600 years.

[jamiewhite]

This guy single-handedly keeps the stock photo industry afloat

[jester]

Handwriting when the teacher says: "5 minutes left" during the exam

[lkj]

This book was almost certainly written by a medieval alchemist. The subjects in the book are things that alchemists were interested in, and medieval alchemists were a weird, secretive bunch. Writing a book in code or an invented language was exactly the kind of thing they would do. The author may have been the only one who knew the “language”, or he could have shared it with a few initiates.

All I know about alchemy I have mostly learned second hand from studying the life of Isaac Newton. The resemblance of the drawings and the overall look of the script to pages of Newton’s own writings on alchemy is uncanny. Of course the book wasn’t written by Newton, but the similarity in style and content does make you realize that Newton was essentially a medieval man. Anyway, this is pretty obviously some kind alchemical treatise. The fanciful plants make sense in the context of alchemy. Some of the drawings are really quite charming and were probably full of hidden meanings for initiates. The subsequent medieval owners of the book who did not know the code or language must have been driven mad with frustration, sure that the book was the repository of precious, lost ancient knowledge. Sadly, it is only the repository of nonsense because alchemy was nonsense.

[mleav]

Part of the cover was translated it translates. “Don’t panic.” There is also a passage inside on the importance of knowing where your towel is.

[mmmmmmolly]

Alien just landing back on his home planet: _oh shit, i left my diary! Nah, I'm sure no one's gonna notice..._

[flexgunship]

Man's first mushroom trip "I'm going to write a book that'll totally f**k with people's minds"

[davidwhittington]

Having read up on this book some time ago, the con, was considered to be the writer from the original century it was written. Many at that time were trying to sell items of antiquity to rich buyers. As no one, not even computers have been able to read it, it can only be considered gibberish.. We can only guess the con artist got a good price for it.