They say they’ve deciphered the world’s most mysterious book, the Voynich Manuscript

An artificial intelligence analysis reveals that it could be written in Hebrew and in alphabet.

The Voynich Manuscript is a supposedly millennial codex that, to date, no one has been able to decipher. His discovery came about in 1912, and the author of the discovery was a Lithuanian bibliophile and printer named Wilfird Voynich, who claimed to have bought it from an Italian Jesuit abbey. The volume is written in an ineligible language that has been christened as Voyniches. All attempts to unveil that code have been unsuccessful.

But now, two computer scientists at the University of Alberta in Canada say they have revealed their mystery using artificial intelligence. According to these two researchers, the language in which the text is written is actually Hebrew, but using a key called an alphabet, which consists of alphabetically sorting the letters of each word. And the content of the book would be nothing more than a simple herbal treatise for medicinal purposes.

The authorship of the manuscript would remain a mystery, although the most common thesis is to attribute it to characters such as Roger Bacon or John Dee. Radiological tests carried out in 2016 dated their antiquity to around 1,400 years of our era; a date made with 95% accuracy, according to their authors. But that so-called antiquity doesn't rule out fraud either. Thus, in 2004, Gordon Rug, a researcher at Keele University in the United Kingdom, said he was convinced that it had been set up for fraudulent purposes.

Furthermore, it should also not be forgotten that the 2016 date was subject to a margin of 5% probability of error, so it could be that it was actually much more modern. And there are those who believe it was actually made by Wilfrid Voynich himself. The motive? That an unknown codex allegedly attributed to Roger Bacon could be worth a fortune.