Despite modern AI and the best code-breakers from WWII attempting to crack it, the "Voynichese" script has never been definitively translated. For redditors interested in the Voynich manuscript
It was found in 1912 by book dealer Wilfrid Voynich at a Jesuit college in Italy. Voynich Manuscript
While the script looks like a language, it follows unique patterns. It obeys Zipf’s Law (shorter words appear more frequently), which suggests a natural language, yet it has "anomalously low" entropy, meaning it is more repetitive than most known languages. The Sections Despite modern AI and the best code-breakers from
Drawings of plants, though most cannot be identified as known species. It obeys Zipf’s Law (shorter words appear more
Carbon dating of the vellum (parchment) places its creation between 1404 and 1438 .
The manuscript is divided into several thematic parts based on its illustrations:
Numerous drawings of small nude women in interconnected tubs or "vats" of liquid. Cosmological: Complex, often fold-out, circular diagrams.