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Has anyone ever deciphered the Voynich Manuscript?
Or has it been proven to be a hoax?
2 Answers
- DavidLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Neither one -- it remains a mystery to this day.
If it was someone's personal code (and that is one of the main theories) then it will be almost impossible to crack. And if it is ever proven to be a hoax, then it will have been one of the greatest hoaxes of all time. :)
- 1 decade ago
Nobody has managed to decipher even a single word of it. Which is (of course) a shame - but there you go.
Furthermore, when the recent radiocarbon dating of the Voynich Manuscript's vellum (carried out for an Austrian documentary) put the date it was made at around 1404-1438 (at 95% confidence), this invalidated nearly all hoax theories (which typically assume a 1580-1605 date range).
So... is it a hoax? (No)
Is it a lost language? (Probably no)
Is it a cipher? (Probably yes)
Is there some kind of truncating / contracting shorthand going on too? (Probably yes)
Does that actually help much? (Probably no)
