Expert Says Humanity Still Doesn’t Understand ‘Alien’ Characters of a Mysterious Text

Expert Says Humanity Still Doesn’t Understand ‘Alien’ Characters of a Mysterious Text
Two pages from the Voynich manuscript. Public Domain/Wikimedia
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A historian recently decoded a 15th-century manuscript that’s considered to be the world’s most mysterious text. Researchers, however, say humanity is still in dark about its meaning. They are questioning the recent decrypting, with one even calling it “self-fulfilling nonsense.”

The Voynich manuscript is a strangely illustrated 234-page-long manuscript that was first discovered in the 19th century. It has perplexed historians and cryptographers ever since.

Venus Upadhayaya
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Venus Upadhayaya reports on India, China, and the Global South. Her traditional area of expertise is in Indian and South Asian geopolitics. Community media, sustainable development, and leadership remain her other areas of interest.
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