NASA asks for help to decipher the manuscript

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Considered by NASA as an indecipherable text, written perhaps by a joker of the fifteenth century, the Voynich manuscript as it is known, has meant a headache for the best linguists and specialists in cryptography of all time, which could not understand even one of the words in the 240 pages of the mysterious codex.
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The ancient text has no known title or author known and is written in an unknown language: What counts and why have so many illustrations in astronomy? The mysterious book was once bought by an emperor, forgotten on a library shelf, sold for thousands of dollars and then donated to Yale University.

The volume is now known as the Voynich manuscript, named after the ancient books specialist Wilfrid M.

Voynich, was acquired by the scholar in 1912 and subsequently donated it to Yale University, where he is currently in the library of rare books and manuscripts.

In the book there seems to be related somehow to the Sun

The book lists some areas of the sky with constellations unknown.

The book includes drawings of constellations ever recorded in any ancient culture, with annotations in writing not related to any known language.

In the astronomy section you can see pie charts, some of which contain suns, moons and stars that could be also astrological symbols.

There are 12 diagrams in the manuscript known symbols for the zodiac constellations, in which each is surrounded by figures of 30 women in almost all nude thumbnail.

Two symbols, representing Aquarius and Capricorn, have gone astray.

The symbols of Aries and Taurus, in turn, are surrounded only by 15 female figures.

The inability of current historians of astronomy to understand the origins of these constellations may then dwarf the current inability of crackers to understand the text of the book.

That's why NASA has requested assistance from the general public to decipher the mysterious writing on a forum created specially for this purpose called The Mysterious Voynich manuscript.

The book itself remains in the rare books library at Yale under the catalog number "MS 408".

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