The medieval Voynich Manuscript has been called "the most mysterious document in the world". Its pages contain bizarre drawings of strange plants and astrological diagrams, as well as an undeciphered script of 20,000 running words, written in a unique character set. Its origin is also controversial, with many theories abounding. We present current knowledge about the manuscript's text through a series of questions about its linguistic properties.
Note: the presentation is a full hour long so we will start at 14:00 exactly!-- Prof. Avishai Wool, http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~yash School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, ISRAEL ya...@eng.tau.ac.il Tel: +972-3-640-6316 Fax: +972-3-640-5027