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New Approach to Deciphering the Voynich Manuscript

Posted on 26 January 201829 October 2018 by Joshua Chalifour

I can’t resist news about the Voynich Manuscript. A computer science researcher at the University of Alberta has tried a new approach using AI to help decipher the manuscript. It seems the manuscript may have been written in Hebrew plus uses various techniques to complicate a simple translation.

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