(Credit: University of Bristol)
There! Look!
What does it say? What language is that?
Brother Maynard, you're our scholar.
It is Aramaic!
Of course. Joseph of Arimathea!
-Of course.
-What does it say?
It reads, "Here may be found...
"...the last words of Joseph of Arimathea:
"'He who is valiant and pure of spirit...
"'...may find the Holy Grail...
"'...in the Castle of Aaargh."'
What?
"The Castle of Aaargh."
What is that?
He must have died while carving it.
-Come on!
-That's what it says.
Look, if he was dying,
he wouldn't bother to carve "Aaargh."
-He'd just say it.
-That's what's carved in the rock.
-Perhaps he was dictating it.
-Shut up!
-Does it say anything else?
-No!
Just "Aaargh."
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Here's the clip on YouTube...
Hmm, they wrote about “psychology” 600 years ago? Interesting given that the concept of psychology as a field of study did not begin until around 1879.
If you are a cryptographer on crack, everything is easy to decode...
“Drink your Ovaltine”! (Sorry, slinking away now).
Oh goodie, 600 year old sex tips. Nothing seems to change....
Interesting discussion here
http://linguistforum.com/outside-of-the-box/medieval-manuscript-reveals-proto-romance-language/
let’s see those sex tips!
ARSTECHNICA calling BS on this translation.
He decoded a phallic symbol?
What would it take to convince scholars like Fagin Davis? She outlined her criteria in a follow-up tweet: “(1) sound first principles; (2) reproducible by others; (3) conformance to linguistic and codicological facts; (4) text that makes sense; (5) logical correspondence of text and illustration. No one has checked all of those boxes yet.”
Sex tip #1... "GIVE IT WASH at least ONCE a year!"
The 'middle ages'... So romantic until you consider their hygiene habits... Pardon the pun.
Drink more Ovaltine.