Secret of Voynich Manuscript, an Ancient Book Written in 'Alien' Code, Partly Revealed

FoxNews.com ^ | 2/11/11

[GeronL]

Older than moveable type presses.

hhhmmmm

[Argus]

Klingon? Elvish?

[wendy1946]

Possible the thing might be in old Prussian or some other Baltic language??

[bmwcyle]

[traderrob6]

Just another cookbook.

[wideawake]

The article's definition of "the oldest book" is a bit schizoid.

It says that the Voynich - which is a manuscript - is not the "oldest book" but that the Diamond Sutra - which is a printed work - is the oldest.

The Diamond Sutra is a very young book if we're talking both printed and manuscript works.

[OKSooner]

IT’S A COOKBOOK!!

[screaminsunshine]

You have to read it in a mirror. The code is decipherable then. It says Obama Sucks.

[mikrofon]

[ClearBlueSky]

Let Michelle have a look at it. It might be Wookiee.
( apologies to the Wookiee race, I couldn’t resist)

[SunkenCiv]

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[Huebolt]

How a single person on the face of the earth would know a written language that was, at one time or another, in wide use seems incredible in the truest sense of that word.

It seems a 500 year old PRACTICAL JOKE at worse, or a product of a delusional or otherwise unusual mind at best.

Someone did go through a lot of trouble and effort, though.

[machogirl]

http://www.starbase-10.de/vld/

Vulcan Language Dictionary

[tet68]

Also this dating only shows when the pages were made
not when the book was written/printed.

[GeronL]

It’s Hamlet in the original Klingon, right?

[Bobalu]

There are some really strange drawings in this old book.

http://www.google.com/images?rls=ig&hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1680&bih=873&q=Voynich+Manuscript&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

[UCANSEE2]

The overall impression given by a review of the Voynich Manuscripts is that someone was trying to 'document' the birth cycle, especially as to the relationship between human and plant life.

I think the 'author' was trying to impress young ladies with his knowledge and 'fancies' and had the means to procure the right drawing equipment to record it all on paper.

It was all made up. But then, that's how everything we know started.

[UCANSEE2]

The reason we can’t ‘translate’ it is because the author was just writing gibberish around the pictures, to impress the ladies who listened to his fanciful tales about what he had drawn and written in the book. It is very likely none of them could read anyway.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Book of Kells is much older than A.D. 1400. The earliest manuscripts of the Bible in “codex” form (in the form of a book rather than a scroll) date from the fourth and fifth centuries. There are papyrus scraps of ancient Greek authors that date back much earlier than that, and Egyptian papyrus texts that are much older. Some may date back to the second or third millennium B.C., I’m not sure.