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Retro: The Vounich Manuscript: The Book That Can’t Be Read (Video Report)

Photo;  (Link to Amazon} The Voynich Manuscript: The Mysterious Code That Has Defied Interpretation for Centuries by Gerry Kennedy & Ron Church. “Not only the strangest books in my collection but one of the nicest examples of the book makers craft.” Highly Recommended . . . EDITOR

from http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/voynich.html
 The Voynich Manuscript
John Baez
January 30, 2005

The Voynich manuscript is the most mysterious of all texts. It is seven by ten inches in size, and about 200 pages long. It is made of soft, light-brown vellum. It is written in a flowing cursive script in alphabet that has never been seen elsewhere. Nobody knows what it means. During World War II some of the top military code-breakers in America tried to decipher it, but failed. A professor at the University of Pennsylvania seems to have gone insane trying to figure it out. Though the manuscript was found in Italy, statistical analyses show the text is completely different in character from any European language. Here’s a sample page:. . . . Read Complete Report

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The Book That Can’t Be Read (Full Video)

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Published on Jun 14, 2012

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