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The world's most mysterious book

Stephen Bax · TED

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About

Deep inside Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library lies a 240 page tome. Recently carbon dated to around 1420, its pages feature looping handwriting and hand drawn images seemingly stolen from a dream. It is called the Voynich manuscript, and it's one of history's biggest unsolved mysteries. The reason why? No one can figure out what it says. Stephen Bax investigates this cryptic work. [Directed by TED-Ed, narrated by Pen-Pen Chen, music by Wonder Boy Audio].

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED-Ed
Speaker
Stephen Bax
Year
2017
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics, History, Literature and writing
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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