This 600-Year-Old Book Has Never Been Read

There is a book at Yale University that no one on Earth can read. It's around six hundred years old, written in a script that matches no known alphabet, and filled with plants that don't exist. An emperor paid a fortune for it. An alchemist and a Jesuit passed it between them. The best codebreakers of World War II attacked it, and modern AI has tried too. This is the story of the Voynich manuscript, told through the people it defeated, and what we actually know about it today. Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:35 Who Wrote It? 1:31 The Alchemist and the Jesuit 2:45 The Bookseller 3:21 The Professor Who Saw Too Much 3:51 The Greatest Codebreaker in America 4:28 What the Statistics Say 5:17 The Plants That Don't Exist 6:08 The Skeptic 6:43 The Internet Age 7:16 Counting the Hands 7:47 Outro ────────── Credits ────────── Script & research: Humanly Impossible Music: "Ghost Story" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0 Manuscript scans: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University (MS 408, public domain) Footage & images: Wikimedia Commons, Pixabay ────────── Unexplained · Unsolved · Untold ────────── Subscribe:    / @humanlyimpossiblefiles   #VoynichManuscript #Mystery #History