The 600-year-old, strangely-illustrated
Voynich Manuscript
(which resides at Yale University) has been called the most mysterious
manuscript in the world. Not a single word of the secret language has
been decoded, at least not until now. Stephen Bax of the University of
Bedfordshire says he has decoded ten words from the
Voynich Manuscript. This seems to indicate that the document is not a hoax filled with nonsense words, as some scholars have concluded.
Stephen Bax, who teaches at the University of
Bedfordshire, has produced a paper and a video where he details his
theories on the text and provides translations of ten words from the
manuscript, which are proper names of various plants that are depicted
in the manuscript.
Professor Bax explains, “I hit on the idea of identifying proper names
in the text, following historic approaches which successfully deciphered
Egyptian hieroglyphs and other mystery scripts, and I then used those
names to work out part of the script.
We have not yet watched Bax's 47-minute video, above.
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