Voynich Manuscript

The 600-year-old book nobody can read/Literature & Writing

The Voynich Manuscript is a 240-page illustrated codex written in an unknown script and language that has defied every attempt at decipherment since its rediscovery in 1912 by Wilfrid Voynich. Radiocarbon dating places its creation between 1404 and 1438. The manuscript contains elaborate illustrations of unidentifiable plants, astronomical diagrams, and what appear to be bathing women connected by elaborate plumbing. Countless cryptographers, linguists, and codebreakers, including World War II codebreakers, have failed to crack it. It now resides in Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book Library.