As a series of drawings without a clear interpretation, after which all kinds of myths and legends have been narrated, the Voynich Manuscript is considered one of the most transcendent books in the history of mankind. Not exactly because of what it says, but because no one can understand it.
Indeed, this book is made up of endless illustrations that so far have not been able to be deciphered , which is a lot considering that it has more than six centuries of existence, to the point that it is known as “the book that nobody can read”.
However, this manuscript did not enjoy its current fame until a century ago, more precisely in 1912, when a collector, Wilfrid Voynich, acquired it in Italy, and tried to find out what was behind the work. Of course, he couldn’t. Neither he nor other friends and experts of that time.
What is this manuscript about?
The ideas and beliefs surrounding the Voynich Manuscript are extremely varied, as there are those who maintain that it is an advanced writing in the field of botany , and others who opt for cryptography. However, no one is 100% closed to any hypothesis.
Beyond the fact that the fictional character of Indiana Jones manages, in a given moment, to understand what is in this famous and mysterious book, the truth is that its 246 pages and 170,000 characters are still that, an unfathomable mystery in which some plant species in great detail, but none of them classified by modern science. Were they really plants then?
Discarded the theories that argued that it was a book thought to deceive people at the beginning of the 20th century due to carbon tests that corroborate its existence since the 14th or 15th century, the manuscript may well be a symbol of times in which so many scientists as alchemists they developed alternate languages to protect your information … and why not your own life.
Be that as it may, they are not exposed in any known language, show images similar to the real ones but not exactly the same, nor references to species or rituals of any tribe . There are those who assure that, strictly speaking, its author could well have been someone with mental disorders, and hence those illustrations.
For the rest, the book is sold practically all over the world, so you can get a copy to see if it is you, after more than half a millennium, who answers their questions.
