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Enigmas 27 min

The Book Nobody Can Read

The world's most studied book that nobody has ever read

The 600-year-old Voynich Manuscript is an enigmatic text written in an entirely unknown alphabet and illustrated with bizarre, nonexistent plants. Despite a century of effort by the world's best codebreakers, linguists, and AI algorithms, not a single word has been deciphered. Furthermore, the exact same evidence used to argue it contains a real language also suggests it could be an elaborate hoax.

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