Scholars have used these illustrations to organise the manuscript’s content into six major sections: botanical, astronomical and astrological, biological, cosmological, pharmaceutical, and recipes. The word-structure leaves only one possible explanation: the manuscript was not composed in an Indo-European language.”Ī page from the Voynich Manuscript Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale UniversityĪdding to the mystery, the manuscript’s 240 vellum pages bear illustrations of plants, floating heads, signs of the zodiac, fantastic creatures (including dragons), castles, women bathing, and astronomical symbols. “A lot of languages were proposed, such as Latin, Czech, or amongst others Nahuatl (spoken by the Aztecs), just to name a few. “Countless decipherment attempts were made,” Hannig writes in an article in German explaining his methodology.
VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT BOOK CRACKED
Now, after three years of analysis, the German Egyptologist Rainer Hannig from the Roemer -und Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, believes he has cracked the code to translating the work, and found the manuscript's language to be based on Hebrew.
VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT BOOK TV
Because of the many mysteries surrounding its content, it has featured in TV shows, books, music, and even video games. Will the Voynich Manuscript, an early 15th century document kept at Yale University and known as the world’s most mysterious book, finally reveal its secrets?Īny attempts to decipher the manuscript's unique text, made up of a mixture of handwritten Latin letters, Arabic numbers, and unknown characters, have so far failed.
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