Archaeology & History
Voynich manuscript age finally worked out
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T.K. RandallFebruary 13, 2011 ·
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Scientists have finally been able to carbon date the mysterious manuscript to the 15th century.
Discovered by Wilfrid Voynich near Rome in 1912 the manuscript has baffled experts for almost 100 years. Voynich himself spent the remaining 18 years of his life trying to decypher the strange writing and drawings within its pages.
The bizarre sequence of symbols, charts and figures have baffled the world of science for the last 100 years. But now thanks to carbon dating, researchers have finally begun to pick apart the secrets of the Voynich manuscript, the most alien artifact of its kind in the world.
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