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The Voynich Manuscript: The 600-Year-Old Code No One Has Ever Broken | Sleepless History
For over six hundred years, one small book has refused to give up its secrets. Discovered in a Jesuit library in 1912, the Voynich Manuscript is written in an alphabet nobody recognizes, filled with drawings of plants that don't exist, and has defeated some of history's sharpest codebreakers — including the cryptographer who helped break Japan's cipher in World War Two.
Tonight, drift off to the full, strange history of the world's most mysterious book: how it surfaced in Emperor Rudolf the Second's occult-obsessed Prague court, what carbon dating actually proved about its true age, why…
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