The reason this manuscript remains a mystery, I’d say, is that we have had too many people who began by thinking they already knew the answers to questions they hadn’t even begun to investigate… just like those before them. These myths don’t bear scrutiny many (like the ‘anatomical’ idea) are out-and-out anachronism and truth be told, there’s not any certainty that the content originated in western Europe. No expert in medieval works in any of those subjects has found any correspondence to medical, alchemical, botanical, pharmaceutical or anatomical works, and in most cases the experts have flatly denied that the Vms is of that sort. “… the manuscript appears to be in dialogue with medieval medical and alchemical texts of the time, with its zodiacs and illustrations botanical, pharmaceutical, and anatomical.”īut it’s all guesswork and speculation, much of it repeated just because it has so often been repeated. The atmospheric carbon which is tested isn’t contemporary ‘fall out’ but the levels within the material being tested – this reflecting the atmospheric levels at the time the animal or plant was alive. I hope you are not the ‘Josh’ who commented about radiocarbon dating. Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC.
THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT DECODED CRACKED
We don’t learn many specifics of that text in the video above, but if this effort succeeds, and it seems promising, we could see an authoritative translation of the Voynich, though there will still remain many unanswered questions, such as who wrote this strange, sometimes fantastical manuscript, and to what end?Īn Animated Introduction to “the World’s Most Mysterious Book,” the 15th-Century Voynich Manuscriptīehold the Mysterious Voynich Manuscript: The 15th-Century Text That Linguists & Code-Breakers Can’t UnderstandĪrtificial Intelligence May Have Cracked the Code of the Voynich Manuscript: Has Modern Technology Finally Solved a Medieval Mystery? Prominent Medieval scholar Lisa Fagin Davis, head of the Medieval Academy of America-who has herself cast doubt on another recent translation attempt-calls the Ardiçs’ work “one of the few solutions I’ve seen that is consistent, is repeatable, and results in sensical text.” Or it may turn out to be the final word on the translation. Their theory, as Pelling puts it, may be one more “to throw onto the (already blazing) hearth” of Voynich speculation. They’ve submitted a formal paper to an academic journal at Johns Hopkins University. As for why scholars, and computers, have seen so many other ancient languages in the Voynich, Ahmet explains, “some of the Voynich characters are also used in several proto-European and early Semitic languages.” The Ardiç family will have their research vetted by professionals. Furthermore, Ozan Ardiç informs us, the language of the Voynich has a “rhythmic structure,” a formal, poetic regularity.
So says the Ardiç family, a father and sons team of Turkish researchers who call themselves Ata Team Alberta (ATA) and claim in the video above to have “deciphered and translated over 30% of the manuscript.” Father Ahmet Ardiç, an electrical engineer by trade and scholar of Turkish language by passionate calling, claims the Voynich script is a kind of Old Turkic, “written in a ‘poetic’ style,” notes Nick Pelling at the site Cipher Mysteries, “that often displays ‘phonemic orthography,’” meaning the author spelled out words the way he, or she, heard them.Īhmet noticed that the words often began with the same characters, then had different endings, a pattern that corresponds with the linguistic structure of Turkish. Maybe that’s because everyone’s got the basic approach all wrong, seeing the Voynich’s script as a written language rather than a phonetic transliteration of speech. None of these theories (the Hebrew one proposed by Artificial Intelligence) has proven conclusive. Its language has been variously said to come from Latin, Sino-Tibetan, Arabic, and ancient Hebrew, or to have been invented out of whole cloth. So it has seemed for the 300 years during which scholars have tried to solve its riddles, assuming it to be the work of mystics, magicians, witches, or hoaxers.
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