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This was in an email to the Society of American Archivists today (I can't find a publicly linkable version): Some of you may be interested to know that Manuscr

This was in an email to the Society of American Archivists today (I can't find a publicly linkable version): Some of you may be interested to know that Manuscript MS408 (Voynich) has been deciphered. A peer-reviewed article will be formally published in 2019. In the meantime, three pre-print papers are available to freely download from the linguistics website LingBuzz: The first paper explains the writing system and language: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003737 http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003737 The second paper translates a pictorial map from the manuscript: ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003808 The thirds paper focuses on volcanic details from the map: ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004381 Please disseminate this information to other scholars who may find it interesting and useful. Regards, Dr. Gerard Cheshire. University of Bristol.

speps 8y ago
Any mirrors? It's all dead already.
- taejo 8y ago
  The Internet Archive snapshotted it today: http://web.archive.org/web/20190326133103/https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003737 http://web.archive.org/web/20190326133103/https://ling.auf.n...
  - speps 8y ago
    It doesn't save the PDFs as far I can see.
    - taejo 8y ago
      Strange: I'm sure I got the PDF through that link, but it's not working for me now.
  - gpvos 8y ago
    ...but not the linked PDF unfortunately. Neither has http://archive.is/mU1XU http://archive.is/mU1XU .
balabaster 8y ago
Having done some cursory reading, I'm not understanding a couple of things. Particularly, I'm curious why anyone would've considered it necessary or desirable to encrypt the information this manuscript appears to contain?
- spathi_fwiffo 8y ago
  to troll people for generations? which is basically what they've done.
  - balabaster 8y ago
    So now that we've deciphered it, the content demonstrates that our efforts to do so were an entire waste of time? Did we learn anything of value during this process? Or was it totally pointless?

speps 8y ago

Any mirrors? It's all dead already.

taejo 8y ago
The Internet Archive snapshotted it today: http://web.archive.org/web/20190326133103/https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003737 http://web.archive.org/web/20190326133103/https://ling.auf.n...
- speps 8y ago
  It doesn't save the PDFs as far I can see.
  - taejo 8y ago
    Strange: I'm sure I got the PDF through that link, but it's not working for me now.
- gpvos 8y ago
  ...but not the linked PDF unfortunately. Neither has http://archive.is/mU1XU http://archive.is/mU1XU .

balabaster 8y ago

Having done some cursory reading, I'm not understanding a couple of things. Particularly, I'm curious why anyone would've considered it necessary or desirable to encrypt the information this manuscript appears to contain?

spathi_fwiffo 8y ago
to troll people for generations? which is basically what they've done.
- balabaster 8y ago
  So now that we've deciphered it, the content demonstrates that our efforts to do so were an entire waste of time? Did we learn anything of value during this process? Or was it totally pointless?