VoynichManuscriptYou are on the archive wiki. The new wiki is here. first presented to the world by antiquarian bookdealer wilfrid voynich, this manuscript defies decryptolisation to this very day - it contains crude but intriguing drawings and a script unlike any encountered is it just a hoax? quite possibly, but there're enough concrete clues (e.g. frequency of letter distribution) to suggest that the continuing amateur investigation is worthwhile, and more than enough esoteric clues to encourage uninformed but complete hypotheses from the usual gang of idiots favourite hypotheses (at the moment): chinese transliteration, madman, irrecoverable artificial language a fair summary, with decent pictures, on the wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript join the VMs-list at if you want a taste of what the Mak Attack mailing list must be like why bother blogging about it? (why bother blogging about anything?) because I finished the compleat history yesterday (title: the voynich manuscript authors: kennedy and churchill) |