To him, this was the perfect task to delegate to an artificial intelligence. That’s when Greg Kondrak, an expert in natural language processing at the University of Alberta, comes in. Some have even gone so far as to suggest it’s indecipherable because it’s all an elaborate hoax.
Voynich manuscript decoded 2020 code#
It also doesn't help that there's no known history about the book, because it dates all the way back to the fifteenth century.īecause of this, the Voynich manuscript is considered the Holy Grail of cryptography, an un-crackable code that has resisted efforts to decipher it for decades, going back to during the Second World War. And while some illustrations suggest astronomical symbols, or biology diagrams, they’re not much help either. Not only is it coded in an unfamiliar pattern, it’s also a language no one recognises, making decrypting it doubly hard. The manuscript gets its name from Wilfrid Voynich, the Polish book dealer who first obtained it in 1912. Now, we’ve got our first real lead on the document’s history thanks to the power of artificial intelligence. In fact, no one is even sure of where it was written and by whom or what language it’s in. With its 240 pages of coded script and puzzling illustrations, the manuscript’s meaning has remained hidden all these. Images courtesy: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
Since it was first discovered more than a century ago, the Voynich manuscript has excited and confounded historians, linguists, and cryptographers.
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