THE WORLD’S MOST MYSTERIOUS BOOK

THE WORLD’S MOST MYSTERIOUS BOOK - 

STEPHEN BAX

5,042,984 views•May 25, 2017

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Deep inside Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library lies a 240 page tome. Recently carbon dated to around 1420, its pages feature looping handwriting and hand drawn images seemingly stolen from a dream. It is called the Voynich manuscript, and it’s one of history’s biggest unsolved mysteries. The reason why? No one can figure out what it says. Stephen Bax investigates this cryptic work.

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