Next, they focussed the AI on the pages of the Voynich manuscript, which the team suspected may be written in Arabic. Testing their algorithm on 380 different translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the researchers' system was able to correctly identify the language of origin 97 percent of the time. "The Voynich manuscript is written in an unknown script that encodes an unknown language," the authors write, "which is the most challenging type of a decipherment problem." It's not an easy thing to do, the team explains in their paper, given the number of unknowns involved. Researchers from University of Alberta have used artificial intelligence to decode sections of the ancient manuscript, using a technique called algorithmic decipherment to reveal the underlying, encrypted language hidden behind the strange book's words. Now, thanks to Canadian computer scientists, it looks like we may have a new lead in the case.
#VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT HEBREW CODE#
Since then, any number of cryptographers, codebreakers, and linguists have attempted to unravel the secrets of the Voynich manuscript, but the obscure code contained in its pages – along with the strange drawings of plants, symbols, and bathing women – has defied explanation. (Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library)
It's been owned by alchemists and emperors, before surfacing in modern times in the early 20th century, when a Polish book dealer called Wilfrid Voynich chanced upon it in 1912, unwittingly lending the mysterious book his name. The meanings of the text, inscribed on pages of ancient vellum, are thought to have eluded human comprehension for centuries. The thing is, nobody knows what the heck all this is getting at.
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