Voynich manuscript 
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SOURCE: Hyperallergic
11-5-14
No one can read this book, but perhaps now that it’s online someone will figure out how.
It’s the Medieval Voynich Manuscript.
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SOURCE: BBC
4-6-14
The riddle of the Voynich Manuscript
The puzzling - and thus far indecipherable - nature of an old manuscript has confounded some of the world's greatest cryptologists. Is there truly a code to break, or is it all an elaborate hoax?
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SOURCE: BBC News
6-23-13
Mysterious Voynich manuscript has 'genuine message'
The message inside "the world's most mysterious medieval manuscript" has eluded cryptographers, mathematicians and linguists for over a century.And for many, the so-called Voynich book is assumed to be a hoax.But a new study, published in the journal Plos One, suggests the manuscript may, after all, hold a genuine message.Scientists say they found linguistic patterns they believe to be meaningful words within the text.Whether or not it really does have any meaningful information, though, is much debated by amateurs and professionals alike....
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