The Indecipherable Voynich Manuscript Is Getting Cloned, And You Can Soon Buy a Copy for, Like, $8000
In 2013, Tablet contributor Batya Ungar-Sargon wrote a fantastic article about the Voynich Manuscript, a ~240-page work written in code, which incorporates an indecipherable script (the alphabet contains between 20 and 30 character), and pictures and diagrams, and many, many (illustrations of) naked ladies bathing in pools and holding hands.” It is named after a book dealer named Wilfrid Voynich, “who first began to mention it in his correspondence in 1912.” It remains “a mysterious manuscript has plagued historians, mathematicians, linguists, physicists, cryptologists, curators, art historians, programmers, and lay enthusiasts alike… After 100 years, the manuscript’s language still has yet to be deciphered.”
Cool, right? Yes, très cool.