# The world's most mysterious book

- 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](https://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_bax_the_world_s_most_mysterious_book)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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. \[Directed by TED-Ed, narrated by Pen-Pen Chen, music by Wonder Boy Audio\].

## Lectures

1. [The world's most mysterious book](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/stephen_bax_the_world_s_most_mysterious_book/eaa58ca69961), 5 min (TED's player)