What We Know About the Voynich Manuscript

The medieval Voynich Manuscript has been called "the most mysterious document in the world". Its pages contain bizarre drawings of strange plants and astrological diagrams, as well as an undeciphered script of 20,000 running words, written in a unique character set. Its origin is also controversial, with many theories abounding. We present current knowledge about the manuscript's text through a series of questions about its linguistic properties.

Speaker: Kevin Knight, USC