Voynich Manuscript

For years, the scholarly establishment has dismissed the mysterious Voynich Manuscript, carbon dated last year to the 15th Century, as a hoax designed to deceive early book collectors, but now a team of specialists at the University of Manchester in the UK have strong evidence that the text is not simply random invention, but an actual unknown language. They used a new approach that they are developing called the ‘entropy approach’ to determine whether or not real language is involved in the manuscript. The letters in the text cannot be read, but the words can be compared to each other even though their meaning remains unknown.read more