Voynich Manuscript May Have Originated In the New World

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @12:20PM from the good-to-know-which-side-of-the-atlantic-we-were-trolled-from dept.

bmearns writes "The Voynich Manuscript is most geeks' favorite 'indecipherable' illuminated manuscript. Its bizarre depictions of strange plants and animals, astrological diagrams, and hordes of tiny naked women bathing in a system of interconnected tubs (which bear an uneasy resemblance to the human digestive system), have inspired numerous essays and doctoral theses', plus one XKCD comic. Now a team of botanists (yes, botanists) may have uncovered an important clue as to its origin and content by identifying several of the plants and animals depicted, and linking them to the Spanish territories in Central America."

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Re:I deciphered it last month. by femtobyte · 2014-01-21 12:27 · Score: 5, Funny

translated: d-r-i-n-k-y-o-u-r-x-o-c-o-l-a-t-l
Predicts the internet by Toe,+The · 2014-01-21 12:50 · Score: 5, Funny

A series of tubes? With naked women in it?
How could that be anything but the net?
Re:I deciphered it last month. by SQLGuru · 2014-01-21 14:02 · Score: 5, Funny

So you're saying that it's the original Loren ipsum with illustrations?
Re:I deciphered it last month. by ceoyoyo · 2014-01-21 15:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Wait, you're saying that because it has an entropy similar to a book of the bible it's not gibberish?