A Scholar Has Cracked the Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript, the Encrypted Medieval Artwork That Defeated Codebreakers f...

In what might seem a belated April Fool's story, Naomi Rea reports that a University of Bristol research associate with the unfortunately suspicious name Cheshire seems to have claimed to have solved--in just two weeks after an initial "series of 'eureka' moments"--a translational puzzle that rivals the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. "Not so fast!" -- says Paul Seaburn, echoing a gaggle of scholars who claim that The Code of the Voynich Manuscript HAS NOT Been Solved ... Yet. Seaburn's article well captures the crux of the issue, although History Today dissenter Dr. Kate Wiles herself errs in calling "hieroglyphics" a language rather than a writing system. Jason Colavito contextualizes the news in his University of Bristol Backtracks Furiously on Voynich Manuscript Deciphering Claims. Colavito rather aptly characterizes the academic brouhaha. (WM)

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