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Voynich Manuscript Partially Decoded

Accepted submission by Thexalon at 2014-02-19 19:52:55
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Thexalon [soylentnews.org] writes:

University of Bedfordshire professor and applied linguist Stephen Bax has decoded 10 words [bbc.co.uk] of the baffling Voynich Manuscript [voynich.nu]. He focused on proper names that would match the accompanying drawings, which allowed him to find similar drawings in other books of the period.

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