At first glance, the "Voynich manuscript" appears to be not unlike any other antique work of writing and drawing.īut a second, closer look reveals that nothing here is what it seems. This tome makes the "DaVinci Code" look downright lackluster: Rows of text scrawled on visibly aged parchment, flowing around intricately drawn illustrations depicting plants, astronomical charts and human figures bathing in perhaps the fountain of youth. Using radiocarbon dating, a team led by Greg Hodgins in the UA's department of physics has found the manuscript's parchment pages date back to the early 15th century, making the book a century older than scholars had previously thought. University of Arizona researchers have cracked one of the puzzles surrounding what has been called "the world's most mysterious manuscript" the Voynich manuscript, a book filled with drawings and writings nobody has been able to make sense of to this day.
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