Voynich text may be elaborate hoax

• Autores: Rebecca Boyle
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3093, 2016, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The mysterious 15th-century Voynich manuscript may be gibberish after all. A new study has replicated its language-like features using a simple cryptography method, suggesting the beautiful medieval text is an elaborate hoax. The Voynich manuscript, has baffled cryptographers since book dealer Wilfrid Voynich found it in an Italian monastery in 1912. Hundreds of pages of 15th-century calfskin parchment are covered in indecipherable text alongside illustrations of unidentified plants, naked nymphs, plant-based pharmaceuticals and astrological diagrams.