Episode 10: The Voynich Manuscript

For as long as there have been books, there have been rumors of books containing arcane knowledge that have been lost to the ages. When Wilfrid Voynich received a load of books in a sale from the Jesuit Order in 1912, he took a particular interest in one specific text. The book was written in an unknown and seemingly indecipherable language and contained illustrations of plants and constellations that match none known to science. Researching the book, he found that its mysteries went back centuries, with multiple learned people of their eras trying and failing to decode the strange text. Is it the most carefully crafted hoax in history, a medical guide encoded to protect controversial information, or just fanciful gibberish? To this day, it has resisted all modern attempts at decryption. Join us this week, as we examine The Voynich Manuscript!