The Voynich Manuscript – The Most Mysterious Text In The World

By
Marcus Lowth
Published Date
January 17, 2019
Last Updated
May 8, 2022
Estimated Reading Time
11 min read
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Conspiracy Theory Analysis, Historical

While some regard it as a hoax from medieval times, others look upon the Voynich Manuscript as one of the great unsolved mysteries of both history and our contemporary times. As we will examine, allegations of a hoax don’t really hold water. However, decades upon decades of research has so far failed to crack the coded language that resides within the 240 remaining pages of vellum (animal skin). Some pages are missing – thought to be 28 in total. What might have resided within these pages, and whether their removal was purposeful or not will likely remain a mystery within a mystery.

The Voynich Manuscript blended into an image of Wilfrid Voynich

Wilfrid Voynich

Even codebreakers from the two world wars of the twentieth century have failed to reveal the details in these unknown handwr...

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Marcus Lowth

Marcus Lowth is a writer with a love for UFOs, aliens, and the Ancient Astronaut Theory, to the paranormal, general conspiracies, and unsolved mysteries. He has been writing and researching with over 20 years of experience.

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  • Nikolai says:

    There is a key to cipher the Voynich manuscript.
    The key to the cipher manuscript placed in the manuscript. It is placed throughout the text. Part of the key hints is placed on the sheet 14. With her help was able to translate a few dozen words that are completely relevant to the theme sections.
    The Voynich manuscript is not written with letters. It is written in signs. Characters replace the letters of the alphabet one of the ancient language. Moreover, in the text there are 2 levels of encryption. I figured out the key by which the first section could read the following words: hemp, wearing hemp; food, food (sheet 20 at the numbering on the Internet); to clean (gut), knowledge, perhaps the desire, to drink, sweet beverage (nectar), maturation (maturity), to consider, to believe (sheet 107); to drink; six; flourishing; increasing; intense; peas; sweet drink, nectar, etc. Is just the short words, 2-3 sign. To translate words with more than 2-3 characters requires knowledge of this ancient language. The fact that some symbols represent two letters. In the end, the word consisting of three characters can fit up to six letters. Three letters are superfluous. In the end, you need six characters to define the semantic word of three letters. Of course, without knowledge of this language make it very difficult even with a dictionary.
    Much attention in the manuscript is paid to the health of women for the purpose of giving birth to healthy offspring.
    And most important. In the manuscript there is information about “the Holy Grail”.
    I am ready to share information, but only with those who are seriously interested in deciphering the Voynich manuscript.
    Nikolai.

  • Jeff says:

    I cannot believe anyone would go to the enormous effort required to author a thing like the “Voynich code” just as a hoax.
    Does that idea really make any sense?
    One author has gone as far as to say it is all “plagiarized” from “other sources”, many of which were “copied”, they say, in the latter using vernacular of a much more benign nature.
    Could this person have a stake in the idea that modern patented “medicines” are good for us (even though many have caused untold millions of deaths) and that herbal medicine are not of any serious use. It almost seems that way, as the pooh-pooh the manuscript with a sniff.

  • Wm J Granger says:

    I’m not Roman Catholic but aren’t the Jesuits and Society of Jesus the same thing?

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