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The World’s Most Mysterious Book: Can Linguistics Ever Decipher the Voynich Manuscript?

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Filled with otherworldly plants and an indecipherable script, the 15th-century Voynich Manuscript has stumped cryptographers for over a century. Linguistic analysis reveals that the text mimics the statistical patterns and structure of a real language, yet it corresponds to no known tongue on Earth. Is it a lost language, a brilliant cipher, or the world’s most elaborate and beautiful hoax?