Voynich Manuscript - Diary Of An Alien Or A Madman? 100 Years Older Than First Thought., page 1


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Topic started on 10-2-2011 @ 12:52 PM by timewalker
The Voynich manuscript is a handwritten book thought to have been written in the 15th century and comprising about 240 vellum pages,[notes 1] most with illustrations. The author, script, and language remain unknown: for these reasons it has been described as "the world's most mysterious manuscript".[1]


I know this has been discussed here before, but I could not help it.

New discoveries were made in determining the age of this manuscript using Radio Carbon Dating. These discoveries pushed the hypothesized creation date back a century to the early 15th century. Older than they thought.

physorg.com 2/10/2011

Using radiocarbon dating, a team led by Greg Hodgins in the UA's department of physics has found the manuscript's parchment pages date back to the early 15th century, making the book a century older than scholars had previously thought.


An alien language

But a second, closer look reveals that nothing here is what it seems. Alien characters, some resembling Latin letters, others unlike anything used in any known language, are arranged into what appear to be words and sentences, except they don't resemble anything written – or read – by human beings.


The author/illustrator has written in a language that no one has been able to decipher, flora and fauna that no-one can really seem to identify, Astrological maps, pharmaceutical entries, etc...

In my eye's this is right up there with Da Vinci.

Genius.

Are these the ramblings of a madman or something else?

I will start with the picture that shocked me the most. To me, this is on par with the Sumerians knowing things they should not have been able to.

Remember, the telescope was not even invented until the early 17th century. 1608 to be exact.



Not that strange? Flip the picture around......




Freaky huh?

more:







Script:



Pisces:



Flora:





Pharmaceutical:



And just plain strange.












sources:

WIKI Entry

Voynich

Physorg.com




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reply posted on 10-2-2011 @ 01:29 PM by timewalker
reply to post by liejunkie01

There are critics.

From WIKI

The bizarre features of the Voynich manuscript text (such as the doubled and tripled words), the suspicious contents of its illustrations (such as the chimeric plants) and its lack of historical reference support the idea that the manuscript is a hoax. In other words, if no one is able to extract meaning from the book, perhaps this is because the document contains no meaningful content in the first place.

The argument for authenticity, on the other hand, is that the manuscript appears too sophisticated to be a hoax. While hoaxes of the period tended to be quite crude, the Voynich manuscript exhibits many subtle characteristics which only show up after careful statistical analysis.[citation needed] These fine touches require much more work than would have been necessary for a simple forgery, and some of the complexities are only visible with modern tools.[citation needed] The question then arises: why would the author employ such a complex and laborious forging algorithm in the creation of a simplistic hoax, if no one in the expected audience (that is, the creator's contemporaries) could tell the difference?


Don't know?


reply posted on 10-2-2011 @ 02:37 PM by stumch
I recently read an interesting book which infers that the book is a coded version of the original Cathar Bible. I have no idea if true but a fascinating idea nonetheless. According to this book it was apparently smuggled out of Montsegur during the siege by the Crusaders in 1246. It was during this time that the last Cathars were exterminated, however this book contained all their ancient secrets (including details of Atlantis) and was so valuable that once smuggled out it became the founding document of the Knights Templar.

Now before I get flamed for referencing a work of fiction the book was called The Armageddon Conspiracy, and can be freely downloaded from the website of the same name. However what makes it strange is the website purports to be written by a faction of the Illuminati, and those who are aware know that the original Illuminati were a benevolent organisation. This website purports to be representing these guys and through their "coded novels" reveal the true information that we have never been told. Having read the books on offer (there are three) they are either extremely clever fiction, much more so than any Dan Brown book, or they contain some truths, either way they are full of extremely interesting information. At the very least they cause you to question what you know.

armageddonconspiracy.co.uk...

Also the site seems to be backed up by Wes Penre on his site, and his research is superb.

From my own investigations, this would be a plausible explanation, from the wiki above we can see that it is far more than an elaborate hoax, and going to this level of effort would only be necessary if the information was truly important.


reply posted on 10-2-2011 @ 03:32 PM by OptimisticPessimist
reply to post by timewalker


Very nice, Thank You!
I've read about this before and appreciate the reminder. Also greatly appreciate the opportunity to get a close look from some quality photos.

From what I remember of it, I was under the assumption it was indeed the work of the aspiring occultist Leonardo.


reply posted on 10-2-2011 @ 06:37 PM by guppy
reply to post by timewalker


Great find. S&F

Perhaps the guy was a stranded alien who gone mad to having to live with barbaric humans. In his last years of living, he decided to write his memoirs for his family back home.

Or maybe it is an autobiography of an alien abductee. Maybe Alien-Bob took the author for a ride and finally sent him home. Soon after the author starting writing this book about his journey.


reply posted on 10-2-2011 @ 07:03 PM by St Udio
Interesting... I ran across an article on Tuesday that mentioned the 'Voynich Manuscript'

as one of the top-ten unsolved, uncracked Codes in the modern world

snip:


6. Voynich Manuscript is at least 400 years old and is a 232-page illuminated manuscript entirely written in a secret script. It is filled with copious drawings of unidentified plants, herbal recipes of some sort, astrological diagrams, and many small human figures in strange plumbing-like contraptions. In 2004 there were some compelling arguments which described a technique that would seemingly prove that the manuscript was a hoax, but to date, none of the described techniques have been able to replicate a single section of the Manuscript, so speculations continue.



the whole article is found here (i could not post the thread in the desired forum by order of the mods)

www.telegraph.co.uk...

Top 10 uncracked codes


Although the internet has spawned a multi-billion dollar industry in creating and cracking codes, crypologists have yet to solve some of the oldest riddles. Below are ten of the most notable:


Image 1 of 3
The Phaistos Disk is 15cm in diameter and believed to date from 1700BC. A double sided disk of fired clay, it is decorated with symbols on both sides, made by stamps or seals in a spiral pattern Photo: ALAMY
Image 1 of 3The Kryptos sculpture outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia
Image 1 of 3The Chinese writing on the bars has been translated, and discusses a transaction in excess of $300,000,000


By Nick Britten 8:30AM GMT 01 Feb 2011
59 Comments ...



All ten are quite intriguing... keep the list and do some threads when you feel like it...


reply posted on 10-2-2011 @ 08:00 PM by realitycheckin
reply to post by timewalker


id say madman. you wouldnt be able to read alien writting. they are too advance for this.
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