The manuscript was discovered in 1912.
Gordon Rugg (Gordon Rugg) from Kolskogo University in Britain presented new evidence that the Voynich manuscript may be fake.
He argues that “complex” text, easy to fake to anyone who knows easy methods of encoding. Their findings cryptologist presented in an article published in the journal Cryptologia. This publication reports the New Scientist.
According to the scientist, the fact that the manuscript remains undeciphered for many years, suggests that code can be “anachronically sophisticated” or be based on an undisclosed crypto approach. Although it is known that the sequence of the syllables is not random, the text can still be a meaningless set of letters. In support of his hypothesis, Rugg has created a text with the same distribution of words that is characteristic of the Voynich manuscript.
The scientist made a table of syllables, which constitute the roots, suffixes and prefixes of words of the manuscript. Putting on the table the cardboard with three holes, Rugg created different combinations of syllables and producing new words. He then created the text, the distribution of words which obeys the Zipf’s law. The latter States that if we arrange the words in order of decreasing frequency of their usage, the second usage of the word will meet two times less likely than the first, the third — three times less, and so on.
Received Raggam the text is very much like the Voynich manuscript. According to the scientist, the results demonstrate that the manuscript might be forged. Thus, the burden of proof passes to the specialists, claiming that it contains a meaningful text.
The Voynich manuscript is a medieval work written in the fifteenth century by unknown authors. To decipher it researchers have tried for several hundred years, however, the language of the manuscript are unknown. Artifact discovered by antique dealer Wilfried Voynich in the ancient South-European castle Villa Mondragone.
