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A medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?

Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable text It has been called the world’s most mysterious manuscript: a medieval set of pages filled with botanical drawings, astronomical diagrams, pictures of nude…

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