Nicholas Gibbs, who is an expert on medieval medical manuscripts, said he came to the conclusion after discovering the text is written in Latin ligatures that outline remedies from standard medical information. Last year a British academic claimed the document was in fact a health manual for a 'well-to-do' lady looking to treat gynaecological conditions. 'There are still ancient scripts that remain undeciphered to this day', he said. He believes the programme could also be used to translate scripts from ancient Crete. 'Can we look at these texts closely and do some kind of detective work and decipher what can be the message?' he said. The text, now held in the Beinecke Library at Yale University, was passed through various owners before it ended up in the hands of a London bookseller called Wilfrid Voynich in 1912 'There are so many ambiguous meanings that we don't even realise,' said Mr Kondrak. 'We use human language to communicate with other humans, but computers don't understand this language, because it's designed for people. Without historians of ancient Hebrew Dr Kondrak explained the full meaning of the Voynich manuscript is likely to remain a mystery. He found more than 80 per cent of the words were in a Hebrew dictionary, but researchers did not know if they made sense together. 'It's a kind of strange sentence to start a manuscript but it definitely makes sense', said Dr Kondrak. He has used statistical algorithms he believes to be 97 per cent accurate when translating the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights into 380 languages.Īccording to their research the first complete sentence reads, 'She made recommendations to the priest, man of the house and me and people.' Now, Greg Kondrak, a computer scientist from the University of Alberta, says he has worked out what the language is. Up until now the 15th century cryptic work has baffled scholars, cryptographers and codebreakers who have failed to read a single letter of the script or any word of the text. The 240-page manual is full of illustrations of exotic plants, stars, and mysterious human figures, as well as many pages written in an unknown textīacon was a friar and philosopher from the 13th century who concealed his works with code so the church would not be able to decipher what he had written.īut that theory was discarded when the manuscript was carbon dated and found to have originated between 14. Some claim Voynich pretended it had been written by Roger Bacon. Some claim Voynich was a 'crooked book dealer' who encouraged the 'crackpots and conspiracy theories' that followed. The text, which is now held in the Beinecke Library at Yale University, was passed through various owners before it ended up in the hands of a London bookseller called Wilfrid Voynich in 1912. Some suggest it was the work of Leonardo da Vinci as a boy, or secret Cathars, or the lost tribe of Israel, or most recently Aztecs … some have even proclaimed it was done by aliens. Over time it has attained an infamous reputation, even featuring in the latest hit computer game Assassin's Creed, as well as in the Indiana Jones novels, when Indiana decoded the Voynich and used it to find the 'Philosopher's Stone'. It is full of illustrations of exotic plants, stars, and mysterious human figures, as well as many pages written in an unknown text. The manuscript is widely celebrated among cryptographers and radiocarbon dating suggested it had between written early in the 15th century.
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