Voynich Manuscript, most mysterious text in world, may have been cracked

[Locutus]

The most mysterious manuscript in the world, the 600-year-old Voynich Manuscript, has been baffling bright minds for the better part of a millennium. Now, a University of Bedfordshire applied linguistics professor claims he has cracked the code.

Through carbon dating, the Voynich Manuscript — named after book dealer Wilfrid Voynich who purchased it in 1912 — was found to have been created sometime in the early 1400s, and possibly created in Northern Italy during the Italian Renaissance. The manuscript has never been even slightly decoded — the individual words, the sentence formation, or even the diagrams of stars and plants that are found throughout — have not been solidly identified. There have been so many unproven hypotheses put forth over the years that it’s widely considered that the manuscript was intentionally created as a (very) well-made hoax. Professional and amateur cryptographers haven’t come close in making a breakthrough, and that includes World War I and II codebreakers. However, linguistics professor Stephen Bax announced that he has finally made a breakthrough in deciphering the text, by focusing on identifying proper names.


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Voynich Manuscript, most mysterious text in world, may have been cracked | ExtremeTech

 

[L Gilbert]

Interesting. Makes me wonder if it will be a biology text, poetry, or a cookbook.

 

[Blackleaf]

It was written by a human on planet Earth hundreds of years ago - but in a different dimension or parallel universe, one which is similar to ours but not quite the same..

It reminds me of that strange but true story of that visitor to Japan in 1954. He had apparently visited Japan many times, as was evidenced by the stamps in his passport - a passport of the country Taured. He later mysteriously vanished and was never seen again.

 

[Blackleaf]

The Man From Another Dimension?

A strange but true tale for which, to this day, there remains no logical explanation:


It certainly was a busy and muggy day at a feverish Tokyo Airport one day in 1954. Those passengers who had just deplaned stood in a somber queue, waiting for the Customs agents to review and properly stamp their passports.

As the hordes of passengers spill out from the terminals, one passenger, a tall mysterious man, stood apart from the rest.

The man presented an authentic looking European passport and carried European currency from several countries and carried himself in a professional manner. But that wasn’t what alerted the authorities. No matter how much they had searched, the Customs agents could not find the European country that had issued him his passport anywhere in their maps. According to the man's passport, he was from a country called Taured.

When they asked the Caucasian man to point on their map where Taured was located, he answered them in fluent Japanese. The man told them that it was a small French-speaking country in Western Europe. When the agents produced a map, he pointed to where his country should have been. His country should have been located in the area which, according to the map, was the border between France and Spain and where the tiny nation of Andorra is situated.

The mysterious man took a step back when he realized his country did not exist on any of the maps. He was astounded that the Customs officers had never heard of it. He claimed that the country of Taured has existed for 1,000 years and that he has never heard of Andorra.

He even produced a driver’s license issued by the government of Taured and accompanying documents such as bank statements and business papers but they were found to be invalid, alongside his bank account. There was an eerie silence in the interrogation room as all of the Customs agents stared at the new arrival. The tall mysterious man from Taured looked as confused as they were and thought the Customs agents were performing a cruel joke.

The Arrival

It had been nine years since the end of World War II and Tokyo was busier than ever. The city began to sprawl as more and more countries landed . Most of the travelers to the Island country found themselves in long queues waiting to get their passport stamped and allowed entry into the country. Life in Japan was returning to normal except of course for the high strangeness that was going on inside the Customs interrogation room.

Eight hours after landing, the mysterious man from Taured sat tired and frustrated in the cramped interrogation room. He kept insisting that he was from the country of Taured and was in Japan on a business trip. The man told the officials that he had been traveling to Japan from Taured for the last five years without problems. He pointed to the past stamps that were issued on his passport to prove that he’d been traveling back and forth from Taured to Japan without any problems in the past.

Airport officials then placed a phone call to the company the man claimed to work for and found that it did not exist. Tired and getting nowhere, they decided to send the man to a guarded hotel room so that he could rest while the proper authorities were contacted and a follow-up investigation was planned. The mystery man left the Tokyo airport escorted by police and Customs officials.

Vanished!

He was placed inside a hotel room high above the hustling city streets. With only a small window and no ledge. After a light dinner at the hotel’s kitchen, he was escorted back to his room where he stayed the entire night. The guards reported not seeing or hearing him after the door was closed. When morning approached, they knocked and received no answer. Upon entering the room they officials were shocked to discover that he had vanished. With no possible escape routes other than the well guarded front door, Japanese officials scratched their heads in total bewilderment.

An extensive search was subsequently launched by the Tokyo police department only to come up empty handed. There was no sign of him anywhere. As mysteriously as he had appeared on that Tokyo airport that fateful day in 1954, the man from Taured vanished.

Mysterious Arrival: The Man From Taured | Ghost Theory

 

[DaSleeper]

He must be related to the guy who borrowed 20 bucks from me............never saw him again.............

 

[petros]

Interesting. Makes me wonder if it will be a biology text, poetry, or a cookbook.

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