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How the Voynich Manuscript was made (maybe)

Snarkout has a great article on the Voynich Manuscript , a mysterious document of unknown providence. It resembles a prior day Codex Seraphinianus , with illustrations of unknown plants, astrological charts, nsked people, and extensive handwritten text in an unknown alphabet and language.

It has never been deciphered, and many have thought it was hoax, with John Dee’s accomplice, Edward Kelly as a popular suspect. A researcher has bolstered this theory by demonstrating how it could have been generated with known Elizabethan era text-munging techniques , with these results .

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