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The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript

Dan Snow's History Hit

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How Do You Know if You Can't Crack the Code?

It's a bog standard medieval manuscript that we just haven't managed to translate yet. The con man theory did someone just write something that looked, like you said, from a distance like a Latin script? It could be anywhere in between those two kind of far ends of understanding it. But I am fascinated by the fact that we have supercomputers, but this thing that was created in the 15th century, we don't even know what to call it.

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