A rare-book dealer acquired a medieval manuscript filled with strange writing in 1912; 114 years later, no decipherment has won broad acceptance

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The Voynich Manuscript is one of history's greatest unsolved mysteries. The medieval document, illustrated and bought in 1912 by rare-book dealer Wilfrid Voynich, is full of unfamiliar writing, detailed drawings of plants, astronomical diagrams and strange pictures of human figures. Radiocarbon…