The Big Read: The book no-one knows how to read
23 August 2016 - 09:26
The world's most mysterious book has been locked away in a vault at Yale University in the US for the past half-century, its worn pages accessible to few and its secrets decipherable to no one. Written in an unrecognisable language, the 15th-century Voynich manuscript has stumped the world's best cryptographers.
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