Caption: These are pages from the "Copiale Cipher," a mysterious cryptogram, bound in gold and green brocade paper, that was finally cracked by an international team of cryptographers.
Credit: Courtesy University of Southern California and Uppsala University
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1 posted on
10/25/2011 6:44:29 AM PDT by
decimon
To: SunkenCiv
2 posted on
10/25/2011 6:45:37 AM PDT by
decimon
To: decimon
First passage translation:
“Here I sit broken hearted, came to sh...”
3 posted on
10/25/2011 6:48:40 AM PDT by
montyspython
(This thread needs more cowbell)
To: decimon
4 posted on
10/25/2011 6:52:56 AM PDT by
mnehring
To: decimon
Translation: Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!
5 posted on
10/25/2011 6:56:11 AM PDT by
Tallguy
(You can safely ignore anything that precedes the word "But"...)
To: decimon
This is pretty neat. It's neat when a ‘secret’ is actually an example of knowledge on something that wasn't openly studied. At that point in time, dissecting a cadaver to glean medical knowledge was considered “Desecrating a body”; and was generally a crime.
It's kind of hard to study the structure of a eye, within a living creature. If the eye has been lost due to an injury, it's usually destroyed, or it decomposes quickly. So, when the opportunity for an examination on how an eye works, how it's designed, and how it's put together would be both profound knowledge, and of a necessity - would need to be hidden (only way to get it, is to “Desecrate a body”.).
6 posted on
10/25/2011 6:58:24 AM PDT by
Hodar
( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
To: decimon
7 posted on
10/25/2011 7:00:44 AM PDT by
JRios1968
(I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
To: decimon
I love this stuff. This is why FR is such a great site.
8 posted on
10/25/2011 7:01:57 AM PDT by
I still care
(I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
To: decimon
Wait until the History Chanel ‘Ancient Aliens’ guy gets a hold of THIS.
9 posted on
10/25/2011 7:05:05 AM PDT by
SMARTY
("The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." Edmund Burke)
To: decimon
"The mysterious cryptogram, bound in gold and green brocade paper, reveals the rituals and political leanings of a 18th-century secret society in Germany. The rituals detailed in the document indicate the secret society had a fascination with eye surgery and ophthalmology, though it seems members of the secret society were not themselves eye doctors."
13 posted on
10/25/2011 7:23:31 AM PDT by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: decimon
The Voynich nut has not been cracked yet........................
14 posted on
10/25/2011 7:28:15 AM PDT by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: decimon; SunkenCiv
Translation:
"Dear Copiale Forvm; I never thought this would happen to me...."
To: decimon
Northern Germany dialect of pig latin.
19 posted on
10/25/2011 6:53:02 PM PDT by
jwalsh07
(t)
To: decimon
Quick ... someone go back in time and tell them that in the future the LASIK will wear off in 8 years....
22 posted on
10/26/2011 8:18:11 AM PDT by
Winstons Julia
(Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
To: decimon
25 posted on
10/26/2011 4:12:26 PM PDT by
americanophile
("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
To: decimon
“...reveals the rituals and political leanings of a 18th-century secret society in Germany. The rituals detailed in the document indicate the secret society had a fascination with eye surgery and ophthalmology, though it seems members of the secret society were not themselves eye doctors...”
sounds like Obama care to me.
27 posted on
11/02/2011 1:31:29 AM PDT by
Beowulf9
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