fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: January 10, 2013 12:27AM
Named after the Polish-American antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich, who
acquired it in 1912, the Voynich Manuscript is a detailed 240-page book written
in a language or script that is completely unknown. Its pages are also filled
with colorful drawings of strange diagrams, odd events and plants that do not
seem to match any known species, adding to the intrigue of the document and the
difficulty of deciphering it. The original author of the manuscript remains
unknown, but carbon dating has revealed that its pages were made sometime
between 1404 and 1438. It has been called "the world's most mysterious
manuscript."
Theories abound about the origin and nature of the manuscript. Some believe it
was meant to be a pharmacopoeia, to address topics in medieval or early modern
medicine. Many of the pictures of herbs and plants hint that it many have been
some kind of textbook for an alchemist. The fact that many diagrams appear to be
of astronomical origin, combined with the unidentifiable biological drawings,
has even led some fanciful theorists to propose that the book may have an alien
origin.
One thing most theorists agree on is that the book is unlikely to be a hoax,
given the amount of time, money and detail that would have been required to make
it.
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anonymous Report This Comment Date: January 11, 2013 08:41AM
I think he was abducted by aliens. And they gave him an anal probe.