The Voynich Manuscript, carbon dated at 1400 AD, is a collection of drawings and
handwritten text in a language that has defied translation for more than a hundred years. The language is entirely unknown and efforts by code breakers, linguists and computers to find its meaning have failed. It is held as one of the great mysteries of civilization with many experts arguing that it is a sophisticated hoax.
The text illustrations contain drawings of plants and stars and is thought by some to be a work on herbal medicine. A British Professor Bax, studying the illustrations and their names, has managed to translated 10 words by comparing them to medieval herbal manuscripts in Arabic and other languages. He believes the work is in an as yet unknown Near East language and has clearly established that it is not a hoax. A conference is being organized to continue the work of translating the document.
most interesting. hopefully will shed light on the tome. one question though is the other life forms and strange plants and animals in the manuscript. it'd be nice to know what that's about.
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