Expert claims it is health manual written for a 'well-to-do lady' to help treat gynaecological problems The Voynich manuscript was discovered in an Italian monastery in 1912 Cryptographers have been trying to decipher the text for decades It is full of illustrations of exotic plants, stars, and mysterious human figures Academic claims Latin ligatures outline remedies and medical information He believes each character represents an abbreviated word, and not a letter The same 'dominant words' appeared in medical documents and the Voynich
Mena: The Voynich manuscript whose linguists couldnt translate for hundred of years has been decyphered by a British scholar. The Voynich manuscript was simply the herbal remedy and health book of a wealthy woman written in abbreviated Latin words.
With super computer today it is easy to decipher ancient text. there is the story of the Christian missionary from Arizona who worked all over the world and collected words and phrases from different languages that he input in a computer in Arizona University that revealed that the oldest language in the world was a Bantu language.
Now a British academic claims the mysterious medieval document identifies herbal remedies and is just a health manual for a wealthy woman looking to treat gynaecological conditions
The book's intriguing mix of elegant writing and drawings of strange plants and naked women has some believing it holds magical powers
The manuscript, which is now held at Yale University, passed through various owners before it ended up in the hands of a London bookseller called Wilfrid Voynich in 1912
