Now with a base language, the researchers attempted to figure out the code. First handing off the opening sentence to a colleague native Hebrew speaker, who ultimately wasn’t able to translate the text into English, the researchers turned to Google Translate. The researchers proceeded with feeding texts from the first ten pages of the Voynich Manuscript to the AI algorithm and found that 80 percent of the encoded words appeared to be written in Hebrew.
Wishing to change this, Bradley Hauer and Grzegorz Kondrak of the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta, Canada, have created an algorithm to decipher vowel-less alphagrams and anagrams in which letters in a word are rewritten alphabetically.Īfter testing the algorithm on 380 different language versions of the UN “ Universal Declaration of Human Rights“, the AI reported a 97 percent success rate in matching anagrams to modern words. The Manuscript is named after Wilfrid Michael Voynich, a Polish book dealer who purchased it from a Jesuit library in Italy in 1912 and attempted to interest scholars in deciphering the script.Įven with modern technology and expert cryptographers, the manuscript has yet to be deciphered. Since its conception, the manuscript has been bought and traded by alchemists, emperors, and collectors until being housed at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University since 1969.
HAS THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT BEEN DECODED CRACK
Determined to finally crack the code, computing scientists from the University of Alberta have used an AI algorithm to decode the mysterious manuscript once in for all. Often called the world’s most mysterious book and rightfully so, the 240 page of text is written by an unknown author/authors in an unknown language is filled with various diagrams and illustrations. Determined by carbon dating to be written in the early 14th century in Central Europe, the manuscript’s written context has remained a mystery due to a cipher, a coded pattern of letters.