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600 year old mystery manuscript decoded by University of Bedfordshire professor
AN award-winning professor from the University has followed in the footsteps of Indiana Jones by cracking the code of a 600 year old manuscript, deemed as the most mysterious document in the world.
Stephen Bax, Professor of Applied Linguistics, has just become the first professional linguist to crack the code of the Voynich manuscript using an analytical approach.
The world-renowned manuscript is full of illustrations of exotic plants, stars, and mysterious human figures, as well as many pages written in an unknown text.
Up until now the 15th century cryptic work has baffled scholars, cryptographers and codebreakers who have failed to read a single letter of the script or any word of the text.
Over time it has attained an infamous reputation, even featuring in the latest hit computer game Assassins Creed, as well as in the Indiana Jones novels, when Indiana decoded the Voynich and used it to find the Philosopher's Stone.
http://www.beds.ac.uk/news/2014/february/600-year-old-mystery-manuscript-decoded-by-university-of-bedfordshire-professor
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(28,890 posts)It doesn't really sound so mysterious after all, though.
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(14,040 posts)it was interesting and I'm glad someone cracked the code. I know many thought it was a forgery but carbon dating showed it wasn't.