Voynich manuscript may have a meaning

The Voynich manuscript is a 15th century text purchased by book dealer Wilfrid Voynich in 1912. It contains illustrations of unidentifiable plants, astrological diagrams and loads of text written in an unknown alphabet. The meaning and origin of the text are still unknown.

Many historians and cryptographers have so far deemed it a hoax. However, researchers from the University of Manchester examined the text by applying a technique based on word entropy. By measuring the frequency and the distribution of words along with other statistical and linguistic properties of the text, they concluded that chances are high that the manuscript was written in a real language and contains a secret message indeed .

Of course this finding does not imply that this secret message will be decoded in the near future as even the best professional cryptographers of the 20th century were unable to interpret the manuscript. Even so, due to the achievements of the UK research group, new investigations can be expected on this topic.

How can it be possible that the source of a 6-century-old text is still a mystery? Is it the work of a medieval swindler or an unknown civilization? Attributing the manuscript straightway to aliens or people of Atlantis would be too brave and phantasmagorical and would also be out of the scope of this blog. However, the mystery of the Voynich manuscript is still a question that boggles the contemplators' mind.

Read more about the research here.