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Are we closer to solving the mystery of the 600-year-old Voynich manuscript?
Daily Mail ^ | 26 January 2018 | Phoebe Weston

Posted on 01/26/2018 9:01:47 AM PST by mairdie

For centuries people have tried to decipher the meaning of the Voynich manuscript, and now a computer scientist claims to have cracked it using AI.

The 600-year-old document is described as 'the world's most mysterious medieval text', and is full of illustrations of exotic plants, stars, and mysterious human figures.

The 240-page manual's intriguing mix of elegant writing and drawings of strange plants and naked women has some believing it holds magical powers.

But even the cryptographers from Bletchley Park, the team that broke the Nazi enigma code, couldn't make sense of the manuscript.

Now a computer scientist says the manuscript is written in ancient Hebrew and the code involves shuffling the order of letters in each word and dropping the vowels.

While his is still to decipher its full meaning, he believes the first sentence of the text says: 'he made recommendations to the priest, man of the house and me and people.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; History
KEYWORDS: antiquemanuscript; cryptography; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; hebrew; middleages; ohsomysteriouso; puzzles; renaissance; voynich; voynichmanuscript
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To: mairdie

You can buy a copy/reprint of the Voynich for a lot less than that; might not look as authentic, but nicer on your bank account:

https://www.amazon.com/Voynich-Manuscript-Raymond-Clemens/dp/0300217234/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=0N6VHYFGHXVR8R3RW1JG


41 posted on 01/26/2018 10:31:35 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: mairdie

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Nothing “ancient Hebrew” there that I can see.


42 posted on 01/26/2018 10:35:34 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: mairdie

Probably just doodles.


43 posted on 01/26/2018 10:36:02 AM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: tired&retired

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Ancient Hebrew is completely pictographic, but nothing shown here is.


44 posted on 01/26/2018 10:39:04 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: tired&retired

That is hilarious!


45 posted on 01/26/2018 10:39:35 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: NorthMountain

Naked ladies salute!


46 posted on 01/26/2018 11:08:30 AM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocke)
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To: Paladin2

The tub has 7 ladies....wonder if it is reference to the star constellation...”The Pleides”!(the seven sisters)


47 posted on 01/26/2018 11:31:34 AM PST by mdmathis6 (Men and Devils can't out-"alinsksy" God! He knows where "all the bodies are buried!")
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To: mairdie
Think I've seen that scrip before somewhere...

It's a COOKBOOK!

48 posted on 01/26/2018 11:54:26 AM PST by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: mairdie; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

Thanks mairdie.
Now a computer scientist says the manuscript is written in ancient Hebrew and the code involves shuffling the order of letters in each word and dropping the vowels. While his is still to decipher its full meaning, he believes the first sentence of the text says: 'he made recommendations to the priest, man of the house and me and people.'
If figures that the Jews are behind it. /sarc

49 posted on 01/26/2018 12:31:32 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: ZOOKER

I keep remembering what LOL means! Thank you!


50 posted on 01/26/2018 12:42:00 PM PST by mairdie
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To: ZOOKER

Someone has been in the Tower of Terror at a Disney Park.


51 posted on 01/26/2018 1:20:52 PM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: SunkenCiv

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>> “If figures that the Jews are behind it.” <<

Heh, Heh

Robert David Steele even says it was “the Jews” that shot a missile at Hawaii!

Antisemitism knows no bounds.


52 posted on 01/26/2018 2:52:17 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Celerity

“It would appear that Voynich has figured out how women work, and wanted to share that knowledge - unabridged - with the world.”


Metaphysical impossibility. I take Albert Einstein at his word: “I believe that there are two things undiscoverable by men: a Grand Unified Field Theory, and figuring out how women think...and I’m not so sure about the former.”


53 posted on 01/26/2018 3:16:07 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Nekkid woman do have magical power(s) over men. Ask any stripper.

Why don’t men have boobs?

Because nothing would get done.


54 posted on 01/26/2018 3:20:35 PM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: Skooz

Every few years, somebody comes up with an idea of what it’s about or where it came from.

(The last one, if I recall, identified some of the plants depicted as New World ones...)


55 posted on 01/26/2018 4:23:57 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Paladin2

Popeye’s cans of spinach.


56 posted on 01/27/2018 3:21:42 AM PST by rxh4n1
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To: editor-surveyor
And since they control the media, they're probably the ones who wrote that song, "I'm Going Back to Miami". ;^)

57 posted on 01/27/2018 8:34:18 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: mairdie

This thing can’t be that old. I see “otter box” about halfway down that first page close-up.


58 posted on 01/27/2018 8:48:47 AM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the SEALs of Extortion 17 - and God Bless The United States of America.)
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To: editor-surveyor
Ancient Hebrew is completely pictographic, but nothing shown here is.

A day late, and a dollar short, but I take it to mean that the language, not the script used to write/transliterate it, is Ancient Hebrew.

59 posted on 04/28/2019 11:43:15 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch
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