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And with the book suddenly appearing in 1912 with an obscure history attached, itРІР‚в„ўs hardly surprising that people would accuse it of being entirely manufactured. The internet didnРІР‚в„ўt exist yet, so it was pretty hard to check if something was legitimately true (not that itРІР‚в„ўs that much easier now). The early 20th century was a great time for hoaxes.

1969:Р’В Kraus donates t he manuscript to Yale UniversityРІР‚в„ўs Beinecke Library.

1961: A Viennese book collector named Hans Peter Kraus buys the Voynich manuscript from Anne Nill for $24,500.

Friedman likely devoted the most time to the manuscript of anyone, and by the time he died, he had decided it was an early attempt at a constructed international auxiliary language. Friedman, who is one of the worldРІР‚в„ўs greatest cryptologists and at one point is head of the National Security Agency, starts a research group devoted to decrypting the text. 1930: Voynich dies, and the book is left to an heir, eventually being passed down to a woman named Anne Nill.1921: HarperРІР‚в„ўs Magazine publishes an article about the manuscript under the title РІР‚СљThe Most Mysterious Manuscript In The World.РІР‚Сњ The manuscript became a phenomenon among cryptographers and medievalists.The circumstances of the purchase are unclear, but it seems it was part of a set of books sold by Jesuits from the Collegio Romano. 1912: The manuscript is purchased by Wilfrid Michael Voynich, whose name is forever attached to it.1670 to 1912: Honestly, no one knows for sure.Some time around 1665, the manuscriptР’В is added to a collection of papers belonging to Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher. The letter claims that the manuscript was РІР‚Сљsold to Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II at a reported price of 600 ducats and that it was believed to be a work by Roger Bacon.РІР‚Сњ It was later proved that Roger Bacon, an English alchemist, was not the author of the text. August 19, 1665: This is the date on a letter written by Johannes Marcus Marci, which was found in the manuscript in the 20th century.Researchers also believe, based on markings on the manuscript, that itРІР‚в„ўs from Italy. Early 15th Century: By carbon dating the manuscript, researchers are pretty confident that it was constructed in the early 1400s.In any case, hereРІР‚в„ўs a brief timeline of the manuscriptРІР‚в„ўs history: Where it comes from is, as to be expected, pretty hard to pin down.

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The full manuscript is available for viewing online, thanks to Yale University. Based on the images alone, it seems to be some guide to astrological herbology, and most assume it has something to do with medicine. It also features many weird illustrations of unknown plants, people and astrological charts. The Voynich manuscript is a 234-page tome filled with writing in a strange language now called Voynichese. Since its discovery, it has obsessed researchers, been called a hoax, been the subject of a huge number of articles (including this one!), and still, after years and years of being examined by brilliant minds, completely eluded deciphering. While itРІР‚в„ўs pretty inconsequential - the language in the manuscript appears nowhere else - itРІР‚в„ўs become one of the greatest linguistic riddles of our day.

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To understand exactly how challenging it is to crack a mystery language, we can look at one that still remains a riddle: the Voynich manuscript. Would historians have been able to decipher the hieroglyphs without the Rosetta Stone? While there have been huge advances in linguistsРІР‚в„ў code-breaking abilities, itРІР‚в„ўs possible that it would still remain a mystery without some translation help. Using knowledge of the Greek, Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion was able to translate the texts for the first time. The Rosetta Stone also advertised the fact that it was the same text written three times in various languages. While the Egyptian languages had been dead for two millennia, written Greek was a language that scholars could read. Its importance hinged on the fact that it was written in three languages: Egyptian hieroglyphics, Egyptian demotic (the less formal writing system in ancient Egypt) and, most importantly, Greek. In the late 18th century, as FranceРІР‚в„ўs Napoleon Bonaparte was having his soldiers raid Egypt for antiquities, someone stumbled upon a large black basalt slab. Ancient Egyptian culture was nearly lost. The Egyptians wrote with a writing system that, up to the 18th century, no one could figure out. Archaeologists investigated the pyramids and cities, but there was a huge gap in understanding: the hieroglyphs. For many centuries, ancient Egypt was a mystery to historians.

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