The world’s most mysterious book - Stephen Bax

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Deep inside Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library lies a 240 page tome. Recently carbon dated to around 1420, its pages feature looping handwriting and hand drawn images seemingly stolen from a dream. It is called the Voynich manuscript, and it’s one of history’s biggest unsolved mysteries. The reason why? No one can figure out what it says. Stephen Bax investigates this cryptic work.
Lesson by Stephen Bax, animation by TED-Ed.

[@commenturthegreat2915]

Oh, so when some medieval guy does it it's "mysterious" and "captivating", but when I do it I "have terrible hand writing" and "need to go back to school"

[@zenking5318]

Good writing kid wrote this Scientist : omg so mysterious and beautiful Me wrote this Scientist: argh I tough a demon wrote deez look at the handwritten

[@yanmur986]

If it's ancient then it's epicccccccc

[@NoCommonMeasure]

lol, kzbin.info/www/bejne/hajFnHywp8iNf6c

[@sahilhasan9496]

hahahahah

[@losingmysanity4136]

In a 100 years our bad handwriting would probably freak the future generation out, then they thought it was something mysterious even tho it was just our exam answer😂

[@nicholsencalope3543]

introvert kid: *draws things out of boredom* people today: *the world's most mysterious book*

[@jerinakhter8488]

@hadia ahmad I like this one 👌😂

[@NoCommonMeasure]

lol, that is the most organized scribbling ever. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hajFnHywp8iNf6c

[@stefan6347]

@@NoCommonMeasure oh you don't know how organized we make our fictitious writing that made no sense.

[@nicholsencalope3543]

@Gustavo Vitor ur not bad urself ☺️ u look cute too 😉

[@chwow1553]

@@nicholsencalope3543 wtf

[@loveyourself1581]

Can't imagine how many languages the humankind has forgotten.

[@Sonicbro-xx6sg]

657.

[@agoogleuser3853]

We remember a lot, but dont realize how much we forgot

[@dhineshr1771]

@@Sonicbro-xx6sg It would lot more than that... Some say In India alone out of 1800+ languages, only 1600+ lives today.

[@NoCommonMeasure]

wow I never thought of that kzbin.info/www/bejne/hajFnHywp8iNf6c

[@Ttegegg]

@@dhineshr1771 I mean only 200 less languages. Compare to the whole. Doesn’t sound that bad

[@RendyRuban]

Honestly, that book looks beautifully and artistically made. Especially those handwritings.

[@NoCommonMeasure]

I thought so as well. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hajFnHywp8iNf6c

[@Triadii]

yes the script looks very beautiful, like bit like arabic and russian script but totally different. Fascinating. The drawings are beautiful too

[@pandorafalemias9819]

@@Triadii wouldn’t say arabic but it does have slavic tone to it

[@andreatthenight3052]

Certainly not the product of a conman! The work and time required for this is astronomical.

[@sandrabulluck1896]

Looks like it might be light language to me. Which is frequency. Just like everyone and everything in the multiverse... just my theory.

[@miacrapnell4634]

‘After 100 years of frustration’ Someone please carve that into my grave

[@zezinharias]

I find amusing that you think you can live 100 years. Another frustration to the list, I guess.

[@miacrapnell4634]

Thucydides yep, the frustration was that I actually lived to 100 yrs and one day, a final frustration

[@chaitrak.s3943]

😂😂

[@faz3662]

Thucydides your comment gives me frustration

[@deebo1186]

Mia Crapnell Lmfao 😂

[@augustvalek]

This gives me hope that my old notebooks will be found in 600 years and they'll think of them as a compendium on medicine when in truth are just the hastily and poorly written notes of a med student

[@acetate909]

So your notes are actually both. A modern medical reference guide and hastily written notes. Make sure that you seal them in laminate and dont crease the pages so you don't depreciate the value.

[@kizhekamaran2273]

As a med student .. I can totally relate!

[@MdSheraj]

The book and ink you use isn't designed to last. What will be left after a while will be just blank pages.

[@cornedbread3669]

DrEsquizoide *wheeze* being a Med Student is haaaard

[@cornedbread3669]

sarahchannel100 I know but I’ve heard experiences that my Cousin as had (she’s in Med School), plus she’s in college. *wish her luck*

[@pigpjs]

In middle school my two best friends and I shared a diary we passed to each other. We wrote it in a language we made up. We also lost it and don't know what happened to it. Always assumed the Voynich Manuscript was the 1420s version of three best friends sharing a diary and then losing it to have it somehow become a great mystery.

[@satorugojo2656]

Any chance this books is yours?

[@ngawadszulu]

I think so too!!

[@franktakcsvonbraun8109]

This! Probably a small group of nuns or monks who joined their order for the regular meals rather than their faith.

[@rafinahuff209]

Bro its the same handwriting the whole book, tho good theory!

[@fizaimrankhan9341]

😂😂😂😂

[@orangewedges]

I had a friend who told me she used a secret code to write in her diary so that it was unreadable to anyone who might come upon it. This ancient mystery manuscript could very well be just someone's journal of their thoughts and dreams that they decided to write in a made-up script only they could understand lol.

[@Runningformylife1983]

And your very correct, it was finally fully translated and it was indeed someones diary. It had nothing of value in the writing it was just written in a forgotten language

[@ogbogukalu1839]

@@Runningformylife1983 The manuscript has not been translated.

[@Eisenkette]

Except most cyphers made are easily broken. This, not so much

[@myfugitivecat]

I don’t think so. The manuscript is all about plants and women how can it be someone’s diary?

[@ericwood3709]

@@Runningformylife1983 Your writing is terrible. You write your instead of you're, you fail to use apostrophes in your possessives, and you run sentences and phrases together without punctuation.

[@wowitsolinky]

i would love it if this was actually just the diary of a teenager with a big imagination lmaoooooo

[@judiemaebelonio8923]

Yesss

[@mantosh56]

Well...if that is the case...than thats some EPIC imagination they might have had 0_0

[@pariot7953]

As a teenager i littreally have so beyond imagination😂💜

[@stella7677]

@Nefelia S it probably wasn’t cuz where would they learn how to write

[@stella7677]

@Nefelia S ye nowadays but not many ppl knew back in the day

[@coronabibi2092]

This inspired me to write some gibberish to confuse the future generations

[@lefthandderivative]

Ipshita Yadav 😂 😂

[@thelaniakean7597]

Now I want to do that, too

[@mahnoorkhalid5118]

Im already doing this

[@faraway-2009]

k tom i bet the dude who wrote that was stoned

[@european5723]

@@ktom5262 Hilarious! You made my day😂😂

[@dysn3961]

I guess it's also important to note that folks couldn't just get a journal for fun back then, it was considerable effort to do the binding, material, resources, inks, and so on to make a complete tome, so that kind of dedication as well as its age is quite significant

[@outresru7751]

Also can we take a moment to appreciate the stop-motion technique used to create the graphics for this video?? absolutely amazing creativity !

[@Moodboard39]

What software they using

[@wes9809]

Could you imagine having a book you drew nonsense in and then hundreds of years later people think it's some magnificent work of complex art and dedicate years attempting to understand its 'complexity?'

[@Qwerty-jc3so]

Yeah, they'd probably invent and discover things. Then they'd think it was divine wisdom from the ancient book, but in reality they made the theories themselves while trying to make sense out of nonsense.

[@emon2689]

The ultimate troll, I'd be laughing in my grave 😂🤣🤣

[@aryanrawat5961]

I think that's what it is

[@tr1ppy795]

I dont think someone would waste their time writing all those words and drawing all those picturse, in all of those pages for a prank millions of years later lmao.

[@potatoo4315]

@@tr1ppy795 True that tho, and the book is probably hella thick so how come they have managed to construct those random letters in the book. It's probably a forgotten language or something. But the question is they haven't found a trace or a clue.

[@kato4820]

7 years old me trying to write a magic book:

[@cherryxfanta]

368 Likes + Top comment and no comments? Impossible?!

[@kato4820]

wow... when did this get so many like ?

[@cherryxfanta]

@@kato4820 Guess one of the spells in your magic book worked

[@kato4820]

@@cherryxfanta Nice, i begged my mom to not throw the book away

[@abinothayyilsanoj4182]

Hmmm interesting...

[@Honorou]

I must say that this is one of my dreams as a kid: create a written language and write a book using it. Can't wait for the day it will be done.

[@beezwacks]

Well then, what are you waiting for?

[@abdullahimran4624]

if it wont be done now, then it wont be done ever

[@myspleenisbursting4825]

It's called a conlang. You should try it

[@KristenStieffel]

Some medieval person invents a language and scholars are all like "what can it *possibly* be?!" Then 500 years later Tolkien does the same thing and scholars are like, "yeah, but that's just *genre* fiction."

[@sahilambede5559]

ITS JUST THE LOST HOMEWORK OF AN ANCIENT KID

[@k.t5249]

This comment is so underated

[@malena_4344]

@@k.t5249 damn..I was gonna say the same

[@asbritt0519]

That probably failed biology

[@wassupboisbutdepressed1456]

@Avni Gupta lol

[@wassupboisbutdepressed1456]

Lol

[@Lol-cg1nk]

Ngl, that handwriting looks so beautiful, like when you see it the language feels familiar but you can't read it

[@ngcstudios4704]

Might be the language we see when we dream

[@weliveinasociety1154]

@@ngcstudios4704 I’ve read letters/signs in my dream and they’ve all been in English..... Back to the drawing board.

[@gst2800]

once i wrote and spike an entire page in italian in my deeams, many years ago. something about the illuminati, which is crazy cause I never knew anything about them until recently. it was a lucid dream, it was crazy to suddenly know italian, and i was so confident i would remember that i didn't wrote it down. when i got up hrs later it was gone, just few words

[@guineapiglife1111]

👍👍👍

[@yusufsangi9280]

Armyyyyy! 💜

[@melaneykk5986]

I feel it almost matters less what it actually is, than how much joy and thought has gone into it. If we learn someday that it holds the secret to remaining zit-free, or just understanding, and exploring a wonderful mystery, I am happy this object exists.

[@lavya79]

After numerous years, future contemporary historians will think the same about my friend's history notebook..

[@FireShoxx]

This is how future archeologist will describe our memes

[@georgeszweden9497]

The "E" meme will give them a headache

[@aarna6853]

Tell me, Isaac.

[@FireShoxx]

Mirzə just like how we dig through dirt to find artifacts, in the far far future we may need to dig through files on the internet to find artifacts

[@FireShoxx]

Mirzə Bro I don’t know. I just wanted to make a funny comment so let’s not overthink things

[@parrotpepper502]

@@georgeszweden9497 I FORGOT ABOUT THAT MEME

[@secret_agent_arya]

Every person who has seen this video, in some part of their heart, wants to be the person to translate this book.

[@NoCommonMeasure]

lol I just left a comment about this, I suggested they send the book to me. lol kzbin.info/www/bejne/hajFnHywp8iNf6c

[@jerinakhter8488]

This is deep for everyone

[@TFadlY]

A challamge befor translating a book try decode this: uoy truh dna ,eil a llet annog reven eybdoog yas annog reven ,yrc uoy ekam annog reven uoy tresed dna dnuora nur annog reven nwowowod uoy tel annog reven ,pu uoy evig annog reven

[@secret_agent_arya]

​@@TFadlY Why???

[@moguru3084]

@@TFadlY never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down never gonna run around and desert you never gonna give it up, never gonna say goodbye never gonna tell lie, and hurt you

[@svikasinigmss9662]

I had literal chills when I watched this video. I know that it could just be a diary of a big- headed teenager but it could also be the account of a period of history that was lost simply cause it wasn't rembered.

[@mikemcdougal4142]

"Be sure to drink your ovaltine." Hilarious reference!

[@Sonicbro-xx6sg]

To what?

[@GaiaCarney]

@@Sonicbro-xx6sg - it’s from the movie ‘A Christmas Story’ Ralph sends away for a Little Orphan Annie radio show ‘decoder ring’ and this is the message he ‘decodes’ A lousy advertisement 😝 best. movie.

[@GaiaCarney]

Mike McDougal - 🦵 thanks for your comment! I would imagine the mystery book is FRAGILÉ 😝

[@annnie7037]

Imagine if someone randomly watched this video and understood what it said.

[@misunderstandingthing6487]

That's what i was going to say

[@annnie7037]

@@misunderstandingthing6487 lmao

[@elliebence5544]

Bruh...

[@kumarvikramaditya9636]

I did

[@kumarvikramaditya9636]

I have understood it.Yale has contacted me

[@LITTLEIMY8]

Have you tried turning it off and then on again?

[@jmyl18ify]

Aneesa Moss!!

[@findme3764]

Yes, but it just won't work!

[@navvyeanand2083]

i think it may be a language but only it is unsolved my sister and I speak a language only we know so it is possible that it is a language

[@kellymartin051]

Aneesa hahaha!

[@TheKingofdans]

lmfaooooo genius 😂😂😂

[@sdovas]

Nice touch to reference Jean Shepherd's Little Orphan Annie-Ovaltine Code Ring schtick.

[@jacobzaranyika9334]

Thank you🙏 TED-Ed I will watch this later.

[@sasharyan-king8908]

children back in the day who made up their own language to communicate with each other in secret at school watching this like: 👁👄👁

[@taejungyeonjinhwan7376]

yep lol

[@TheClickbaiterA]

@@emmag9987 dafay lukchi tarshi bie

[@momo-ts6le]

@@taejungyeonjinhwan7376 I know I'm late but.... ONCE and STAY!!!🍭🍭

[@taejungyeonjinhwan7376]

@@momo-ts6le omg so cool btw im new stay

[@momo-ts6le]

@@taejungyeonjinhwan7376 lol me too I am an armyonce I'm not still a stay , I basically know all their names , but I still don't know all the inside jokes of stays

[@pvvineet1722]

When decoded its "Never gonna give you up" put in loop.

[@paymankhayree8552]

first rickroll in history

[@dkashy13]

Now this comment will have 102 likes

[@charleskraisinger6366]

Do you remember Rick Astley? ..... kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2fLq554ns2Um9k

[@40shreyaroy89]

Lel

[@thunderbeast9831]

@@charleskraisinger6366 Nice one, bro! 👍

[@lastwolf42]

I like the idea of very creative friends, siblings, or lovers who created a fantasy world and language and wrote notes back and forth to each other That or maybe even twins who developed a script for their cryptophasia

[@se7ensnakes]

I believe that at the time that it was written the information in this book was very valuable. People had somewhat limited understanding compare to today. There are plants that could kill you, and plants that can make you well. Perhaps this book is a little about what was usable back then.

[@khawlaelattar9154]

"What do you think it is ?" Lemme see: _ unreadable handwriting _ a mysterious language _ drawings and doodles That's just my notebook

[@naltlan7651]

or a failed conlang

[@madpianist8903]

😂😂

[@user-xx3uw9pk1s]

My handwriting is even worst

[@Celine-un2fq]

No... that's my notebook 😂

[@deepanshu564]

Exactly

[@dezraydenecker5315]

Well one day future people will look back at memes and think the same thing..

[@acetate909]

Huh? The book in this video is a meme. All information disseminated through a system is a meme. Also, there is enough relevant lateral source material to decipher English texts so translation to a future language will likely not be an issue when looking back at our current writing through the lense of a future civilization.

[@MohammadKhan-lw2yu]

@@acetate909 *whoosh*

[@pointlessopinion611]

@Mohammad Khan , it's already happened, what is this mysterious h-humor?......we may never know

[@Astruin]

Mmhmm

[@alexaluv6001]

Amen

[@VojueC]

One episode of documentary series "Czech Mysteries" by Czech TV was about this book (since it is connected to Prague). It is unfortunatelly only in Czech language but it is very well done (much more detailed - 40 minutes). I wish you guys could see that, you would not be like "It's just some random medieval dude's dairy" after that.

[@quint1715]

I think leaving something so puzzling behind for so many years is the most inspiring way to leave this earth

[@beckoning-chasm]

"We've translated the first page! IT'S A COOKBOOK!!"

[@ivyripple7695]

Beckoning Chasm Wait I can’t tell if u are joking but I’m just going to imagine u aren’t so that I can be excited about something Y A Y ! ! ! edit : oh no I just looked it up and it’s not true :((

[@anthonychang2298]

Ivy Ripple gullible much?

[@ivyripple7695]

Anthony Chang Yes I am very gullible. But shhhh, we don’t judge -.-

[@rielgabriel88]

Ivy Ripple it’s a twilight zone reference :)

[@zendriagoodwinkins1071]

to serve man..lol

[@fairyblu6929]

"What do you think it is?" The diary of a mediaeval Wimpy Kid.

[@dandelion40k87]

*ancient

[@kidistgebreyes9763]

👏👏

[@1CT1]

Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and you will be saved. John 3:16 (Share the good news of the gospel around the world!)...... ,,.. Have a wonderful rest of your day/night everyone, may the LORD bless you all, and farewell!

[@pawpawworldchanel]

This is a story of our ancestor before they become human, they were plants, until god creates adam and eve in the garden of edden, we are genetically modified in gods laboratory, even eve was made from adam ribs, and at the time they ate the forbiden fruit, it made them change from plants reproduction to human reproduction, in which we leaves our plants body to become animal body, where we have our lust, emotion, anger etc, not inocent plant anymore

[@lynxb8300]

this is what I thought

[@theruleofthree2851]

This is an intriguing story and I think I have a wild idea as to what it might be.

[@78thandSynth]

This was presented very well. Good watch

[@ShawnRavenfire]

I wonder if some future generation will find one of my old high school notebooks that I would scribble on and have scholars trying to decipher it.

[@eve36368]

Yass Queen!

[@CJin-tp4iz]

Shawn Ravenfire WOWOWOW! You may have just solved the mystery!😂

[@kommenttimyrsky451]

"This page seems to be a complaint on the current school system and theaching, but that would be silly!"

[@bigzo2186]

Shawn Ravenfire they would know it was just a student writing on a note book

[@Chris-sch]

Lol dude u made my day

[@gachastudios9844]

The people who made this are face palming in heaven

[@sbyoutub3]

Or eating popcorn 🍿

[@thequeenofboba6583]

And laughing

[@sanchitachakraborty9950]

And grinning reading their own memes

[@vyenaught2529]

I like how you're assuming they're in heaven

[@Real_Lion_of_Judah]

Is Rivendell Heaven? reminds me of Elven script from LOTR.

[@gordonnicol9542]

This is a fabulous and concise video of what the Voynich Manuscript is or might be. I paid £35 for the The Voynich manuscript facsimile which is a gorgeous full size representation of the real thing and beautifully illustrated and, although I'm the proud owner of this gorgeously created facsimile, this short video would definitely be all the average interested party would need to give them a superb taster of it. I love the sprinkled animations which are just right.....not too cheesy or intruding but just right. So, very well done to Stephen Bax. In this short video I believe you've captured the essence of the manuscript.......and a big thanks from Bonnie Scotland. My thoughts on this undecipherable mystery are that, since most of us who will look at it will try to logically find what the text is saying but, what if a group of people who don't think logically say perhaps autistic or similarly off the spectrum people were given the book to look at in an illogical and completely different way..................maybe then there might be some progress : )

[@owenofhb8319]

Maybe the real Voynich Manuscript was the friends we made along the way

[@IWantToStayAtYourHouse]

Imagine in 1000 years. Poeple will be confused why we have posters of a dead gorrila and why we had pictures with white text at the top and bottom of the page.

[@Hashazer]

An idiot cant solve a meme without knowing the meme

[@alexcarsley7608]

An idiot I disagree that they'll be confused unless civilization crumbles between now and then which I suppose is likely with the way things seem to be going. if civilization is unbroken then there won't be any problem understanding the language. like we can understand old languages no longer in use for the last 2000 years and older.

[@plushxwx]

An idiot normie

[@cranberrywb100]

I think the knowledge of memes will be in future history books and they'll learn about how sad of a generation we were. Like instead of knowing who the creator of Mona Lisa was, they'd have to know the creator of Pepe the frog.

[@jojojorisjhjosef]

Lol, no one is gonna remember us bruh

[@dheeladheel]

If scholars found my English note book in 300 or so years they'd probably think its from a lost culture or a new language or something.

[@raiseup1453]

Slingger Adheel difference : back in the 15th century, not that many people could read and write and when they did they would do it for important works not to write down English classes notes as you say. It would take a scholar to do it, not the average joe. Moreover, it's a book with hundreds of pages and coloured images. Affording paper and ink was surely not as easy as it is today. So your comparison is definitely irrelevant.

[@stevescoffee8325]

O my goodness this nerd don't get a joke

[@_extrathicc]

OMG those retards cannot see how bad the "joke" is.

[@heyjude8258]

Slingger Adheel the joke is saying that he/she has a really bad handwriting just to clarify to those who dont get it.

[@dheeladheel]

Sushi Wasabi yup, its barely legible now

[@maria-san]

there's 7 of us siblings, my oldest brother invented alphabets (not exactly languages) and all of us learned it and used it all the time. i would write words in my notebook and my friends would be puzzled at it

[@arpit_mau]

Siblings things ❤

[@kanrup5199]

It has astrology signs and plant drawings. Maybe something alchemy related. Obviously if it was a true complete language that's used here, maybe they are just using a different letter script. It's fairly difficult to artificially create a complete language. Even Tolkien's Elvish/Dwarfish were not fully complete.

[@ElectricToast2099]

Super computers from the year 2099 will eventually translate it and will say, "it's just a prank, bro." over and over.

[@synchromation9491]

yes it will

[@synchromation9491]

also a bunch of lebron james and my name is jeffs

[@jameskkm]

What makes you think we'll live to see 2099?

[@Zeus-sv6wi]

James Kerch-Matthias To be fair he didn’t say we will live to 2099, just when it get’s to that time they might decode it.

[@emilioarmenta7780]

TheCadillacCat so true

[@ItachiUchiha-nx2sw]

Prank level: over 9000

[@pinkribbon1007]

JAHHAHAHHAHAH probably spent so many reserchers life time on this

[@sulaiman6183]

So it's 9001?

[@bee1802]

LMAO

[@carsonlamont8869]

Please do a video on the codex gigas and maybe there's other ancient books I'm not fully aware of

[@-stefanv-5439]

There is an online pdf of it available, and just from the pictures it looks like how to grow, culture and grafting plants and when to harvest them (with some different calendars available in that time), so you can make some kind of medicine out of it. But its very wired especially towards the end.

[@axielily536]

1:37 can we talk about how pretty the handwriting is?

[@amalieplougmann9753]

YES PLEASE, IT'S SOOO CAPTIVATING!

[@vermillionmaybe4980]

It looks like ink, distributed onto the paper with a dip pen or calligraphy pen

[@nazifaislam744]

No , sorry

[@jellie3969]

yessss 🥺🥺🥺

[@Pilbaran00b]

Just gotta say the way you presented this video is beautiful. From the animations and art to the sound in the background and the soothing voice. Nice

[@dumbasspotathot1513]

Pilbaran00b ikr i wanna see more vids like this

[@bryanr.5029]

Yeah! I feel the same too

[@macm3081]

much better than those damn robot voiced videos. :)

[@arismatold_me6753]

@@macm3081 lol

[@theoking2821]

I'm shocked you guys didn't talk about the Cotex Gigas. Maybe another video?👀

[@saoirse6406]

You never know, it could be a studious teen's journal to sketch and scribble gibberish in.❤️

[@soxvo]

Is no one going to talk about how beautifully made this video is done? I love it :(

[@mounikamuchintala1351]

Yes

[@cammyman32]

Yes

[@janep9603]

Yes

[@serena_deflora]

yess

[@h1there35]

If u love it why are you sad 😧?

[@SinaZarin]

Some medieval jokester is laughing at us

[@arshpreetkaur9]

I too feel the same !! 😂

[@pandapvp1649]

It's Turkish writing from the 1400's. Author is probably laughing at you tho

[@SinaZarin]

@@pandapvp1649 didn't turks write in persian script in 1400? Suljeks of rum (around 1200 ) did as far i know

[@pandapvp1649]

Sina Zarin thats pre-ottomans. The manuscript was carbondated of leather pieces in the book to 1420 the ottomons ruled turkey in this time. Fyi There have been multiple pages already translated from modern turkish.

[@stinewatson3875]

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

[@code_grammer7496]

"Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it."

[@nadztt]

I think this could be a journal of someone's thoughts, dreams and random doodles.🤷‍♀️

[@joymaebalmes]

Imagine when you just want to doodle shits and they thought it's a relevant mystery :D :D

[@jeraldvannbuhat6185]

Maybe! But in history only conscious/clever human beings does this sht matter. For me it is a message for all the generations.

[@evelynfarfellwooosh1219]

Joy Balmes You're a shit. don't call the history shit.

[@joymaebalmes]

the same for me, a mystery can be anything. IMAGINE this, what if the author just want to put whatever he likes on the paper (e.g. maybe he likes those plants and he's very curious about astronomy) and for him, he's plainly writing it and everyone thought that the answer to every question in the universe is inside that book. Maybe, probably not. The answer will be uncertain. I want to put my thoughts in a more funny way. :D

[@jeraldvannbuhat6185]

frankie paul It's just an expression of my word man don't be serious! So you too want to be call you the as the same:: shit? :)

[@joymaebalmes]

frankie paul Which part of my sentence is 'history is shit'? Point it out and I'll gladly correct myself.

[@kathyd9324]

From the page images displayed and possibility it having been given to a physician, it may possibly have been the first book written as a pharmacopeia.

[@franktakcsvonbraun8109]

My theory: a constructed language made and used by a small group of friends who were either nuns or monks (mainly because they were the groups most likely to have the knowledge and ability to write, illustrate, and bind the manuscript) that created their own fantasy world/story. Our ancestors weren't as dour as we portray them. I'm still interested in knowing what it says but this is my best guess as to what it is.

[@xanderav2547]

just a diary with a secret language some kid and his friend made

[@izuk0stories729]

XD

[@kazuha_supremacy7712]

That sounds romantic

[@keanutamatea5475]

Pretty intelligent kids then 😅

[@deflatedmcrwave]

@@kazuha_supremacy7712 still a better love story than twilight

[@dawner9726]

@@deflatedmcrwave anything is better than twilight-

[@iftekhar77]

it’s comforting to know my doodle book may be studied in the future

[@Someone-ig7we]

They won't. The english language is too big lol

[@joshuahamm2280]

2:06 was gold! "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine", from "A Christmas Story" (1983). 😆

[@helenmary1201]

This video is very well made! Wow!!

[@syfx1485]

Plot twist : The writer actually wanted to make a drawing book for kids but used auto-generated subtitles instead

[@jonhohensee3258]

No he didn't.

[@tanushreegupta6490]

🤣

[@xeniaumair7217]

Lmao

[@radhikamalviya5196]

"The world's most mysterious book" Me: Maths Book?

[@sortof3337]

Radhika Malviya lol. I find everything else math difficult. :p

[@narobeseyoum7319]

😂😂😂that's me

[@user-by1xj9uz3e]

It's Rd sharma

[@jahanashirin464]

Lol... me tooo

[@CaptZdq1]

'Math' is singular.

[@zion-istslayer]

4:10 I am really sure this is a Botany book, and how that picture relates to the fact that a female gametophyte of plants consists of 7 Cells. Notice how they're coming out of a plant, and they're 7 in number and have the shapes of a women. If my concern is true, then the person who wrote this was an exceptional Botanist.

[@user-mx5bn9yy6v]

For me I saw and read a fantastic Arabic book. The same text address 4 different sciences. If you read it normally you read Law, and if you read it vertically you read Arabic Grammer and if you read it vertically last letter from each line you read history and if you read it vertically the letter from mid or the line you read Art...I hope I managed to recall it correcly. It’s an old book and may be in those days the medium used for writing was not easily available In the recent copies of the book they use different color each subject which makes it very readable.

[@hypsolinehypsilone6785]

Every time i finish watching I'm like "ok now let's see the comments "

[@themrsnakebitee]

Hypsoline Hypsilone ain't nobody got no time for that boi i read the comments while i watch

[@xxlittlelunaxx3723]

I’m the 666th like

[@GenJotsu]

The creator of the book is one of the oldest and smartest troll; the book is just a masterpiece of a troll.

[@morecowbell7868]

Creators

[@ksubschallenge-kz1ye]

XD its so true

[@Thefoop]

This could be the answer

[@sananidhi3724]

the more i think of it the more it seems to be an encyclopedia. i mean if they ever try to even translate it, i guess the most they are going to find is some kind of rare species of plants that we never knew that existed or maybe just see what those century people thought of it and appreciate their efforts.

[@dougvanminnen7537]

My guess is that It was written by someone: - With lots of free time on their hands and therefore was wealthy - Had very bad hand writing - An overactive imagination - And liked doodling That's it, nothing more; but of course we all love to overthink things and make it more complicated then it really is.

[@paolob.5667]

Spoiler: it's the first troll in history.

[@quandaledingle3937]

You spoiled it?

[@paolob.5667]

@@quandaledingle3937 yes

[@lotfyaboeslamlotfy155]

@@paolob.5667 معلوماته سطحية

[@dominiclarratt9968]

It's a Rick roll.

[@codingsource7309]

A very complicated trolling.

[@voiwithad]

This book may forever remain *UNSOLVED*

[@lilikazhimomi9822]

would love to see an episode on this one.

[@shenahpark1011]

Nietzsche's Butthole it would only be an unsolved episode if someone died because of it.

[@tallybee9091]

kira lane maybe someone did, that's the *mystery*

[@bridget4858]

Trang Nguyen Love that reference.

[@luffyd.monkey8701]

gosh darn it 😂

[@embereclipse634]

amazing explanation

[@AA1YL]

Own a copy of this book it feels real to me. I feel someone from hollow earth while visiting us left it behind… no different than us when we explore leaving stuff behind. This is a language still used today, I feel this in my soul!

[@ethanhawksley9097]

"How To Survive Your First Night In Minecraft"

[@alphaetomega]

The sacred texts.

[@robenkhoury7079]

@@alphaetomega 😂😂 I love you so much ❤️

[@kuboo7976]

Hahaha

[@joelwest5541]

🤣

[@starsandsuch7778]

Aight, now I have to spend my whole summer researching this thing.

[@skyline6500]

Uniquegirl 10 Have fun, been doing it myself before.

[@amandadube156]

Uniquegirl 10 the "stuff you should know" episode about it is a good start

[@mcrews44]

Uniquegirl 10 I've been trying on and off for years to reasearch it ever since I saw a documentary about it, I've tried to get people I know interested in it, but nobody cares really but me, I think it's so cool

[@hikarikouno]

Find the book and go on a summer adventure with your sister. :D

[@starsandsuch7778]

HikariKouno21 yess!! I shall drag my friends along for an adventure!

[@larryhatcher8927]

It was Voynich...I'm about 90% sure on that. No had ever heard of this book until Voynich brought it in 1912. He was pretty much a genius. He knew where to get the paper and how to make the ink

[@maleeklateef8478]

Narrator: For over 100 years, scientist have tried to crack the code of the book without breakthrough. Narrator to me: What do you think it is? Well I think it's a book no one understands just yet.

[@albalawideema6832]

It is so painful to think that there might be important breakthroughs and knowledge humanity has discovered and then lost in translation

[@arcaneserein8919]

Yes! Was thinking the same thing but ppl here are too much into making memes and jokes..... thank you

[@aresnguyen_rsv]

Oh you will be hurt more to think about how many thousands books and artworks have been destroyed by accidents, disasters and movements (nazism, communism, revolutions etc...) that we can actually read but they've gone forever.

[@cupcakemcsparklebutt9051]

Agreed

[@justinwbohner]

There aren't any. It wasn't until very recently that people figured out that metals can't be transmuted and diseases are caused by germs. Most "ancient knowledge" is nonsense unless it was an eyewitness account of some rare event. Even the surviving wonders of the ancients are nothing more than large stacks of rocks.

[@emmajhason7856]

It's been translated, and I hate to break it to you, it's just a book written about how to use plants as medecine (the most basic book ever) so no lost knowledge there, the language is ancient turkish if you were wondering

[@williamshakespeare8748]

Those 15th century 4Chan trolls crack me up.

[@remixtheidiot5771]

William Shakespeare LOL

[@BatMandor]

William Shakespeare lmao

[@TheNoobShow57]

William Shakespeare trolls, trolls never change

[@robotfish2012]

Its the prophecy of Kek

[@thegr8malachite370]

Yoongi Yoongi Nee!! You're the guy

[@daniistrwbrry]

"after 100 years of frustration" sounds like school to me

[@yyg4632]

I saw the video of the director Lisa Labracio. Its awesome animation. Not sure why they don't include the actual name of the director of these videos.

[@MultiSam123456789101]

The book kinda looks like bio notes from that one girl who has all the glitter pens and markers in class and writes in cursive but when you ask for her notes she refuses.

[@meiwu9293]

Props to the animators who build a small recreation of the book.

[@respectableaf9061]

Agree. So well done.

[@abhijeetjagtap9891]

i can only read three letters which are o f u c

[@Willowerry]

I think I saw a video where people figured out that the book was written in Turkish! Although, the author(s) probably didn't know how to properly spell the words they heard, so they just wrote down what they heard. Do take this with a handful of salt, not just a pinch, because I might be wrong about a thing or two. I hope this helps anyone? If anyone is curious, I think you can still find the video. Type in "Decyphering the Voynich Manuscript" or something into the searchbar, you might find the video

[@thaliagrace6631]

Started and ended with absolute mysteriousness..

[@vinetu73]

I love these types of mysteries cause they really show that no matter how much time has passed, there are still many secrets and mysteries in history unsolved.

[@g30zapantamandye.94]

Bisera G. I

[@smegleymunroe863]

Bisera G. Two possible one words: Necronomicon/Enchiridion, Hero's Handbook

[@eve36368]

So many people silenced yet so many scratches remain AKA Graffiti

[@amineaboutalib]

Dedi Wahyudi No.

[@klesida6924]

that's why teachers insist on us to write our names in every paper

[@eve36368]

klesida gjana yet they insist cursive & it makes us illegible

[@houdasamad]

This comment is incredible

[@ava_niche]

It really woudln't matter as you would write it in the same language, which no one can read.

[@Gidiotic]

And good handwriting

[@supertankken2931]

Yup

[@echognomecal6742]

Idk. When they mentioned 2 writers & an illustrator, I wondered if perhaps its the combined efforts of intelligent triplets who were all in the same business or with a mutual hobby/interest, perhaps botanical in nature. Many times, the children of multiple births will have their own private way of communicating. Just a thought... Could be business partners who didn't want their records known to others. That sort of thing.

[@careliz]

Consulta: si descubrí qué es el manuscrito, dónde debiera comunicarlo?

[@bollied5760]

It's actually the prequel movie script for the the Bee Movie.

[@sethb8177]

Oliver Diaz that doesn't make any sense.

[@blackcatvibez990]

not much, but the bee movie is a meme so people will love it no matter what

[@smegleymunroe863]

Oliver Diaz Oh my gosh!!!!!!!!!! It's the Enchiridion of heroes

[@selena7218]

probably just a secret diary with an invented alphabet to keep it private 😂 I do the same

[@ceasefire2825]

please leave it with a translation for future generations.so they aren't as puzzled as we are

[@selena7218]

@@ceasefire2825 Of course I'll do it

[@prkp7248]

If it is just an alfabeth we would already have a answer what it mean. Letters in all language had specified number of apear, so after you write this long book, we could just look at which letter is the most popular in book and than look at which letter is most popular in English/German/France/Polish or other language. But it is not working. What is more interesting is that not only single letter in language have number of apearing, but even a words have it - it is proven by Zipf's Law.

[@Martan404]

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[@junjunjamore7735]

That's called a "cipher" and it's mentioned in 2:04.

[@husnas613]

This book definitely holds great meanings far beyond our imaginations. I could feel it in my bones. When it is finally deciphered, it'll open a wide scope of knowledge of probably another language or even something about the universe.

[@cerebrummaximus3762]

I can't remember if it's this book or another, but I remember reading somewhere that it was supposed to imitate the feeling of a child too young to be able to read or make sense of the world come across an encyclopedia.

[@N1N44]

Bruh this is like the handwriting of a medieval doctor lol

[@georgeszweden9497]

When in years from now they'll find doctor handwriting they'll think it was a mysterious civilization with an indecifrable language

[@robinpower1130]

You are 100 percent on the money! The H character is a medieval transfusion device! Look it up....it's either a vampire guide to healthy eating or coroners guide to the bacterias and organisms that infest a cadaver. Eeeek!

[@knunniek.9304]

Nah , too neat.