Six hundred years. Every codebreaker failed. The Voynich manuscript is a 240-page book written in the early 1400s in a language nobody can read — its parchment carbon-dated to 1404–1438, its pages full of plants that don't exist and zodiac wheels. In this video you learn: why the manuscript's strange script follows the patterns of a real language yet means nothing to anyone; how America's greatest codebreaker, William Friedman, spent years on it and failed; and how the book went from a Polish dealer in 1912 to Yale University's library, where it sits today as manuscript MS 408.
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