Access
This article is part of Nature's premium content.
Published online 17 December 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031215-5
News
World's most mysterious book may be a hoax
Elizabethan encryption tool hints Voynich manuscript is elegant gibberish.
A strange sixteenth-century book may be cunningly crafted nonsense, says a computer scientist. Gordon Rugg has used the techniques of Elizabethan espionage to recreate the Voynich manuscript, which has stumped code-breakers and linguists for nearly a century1.
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
Comments
Reader comments are usually moderated after posting. If you find something offensive or inappropriate, you can speed this process by clicking 'Report this comment' (or, if that doesn't work for you, email webadmin@nature.com). For more controversial topics, we reserve the right to moderate before comments are published.
There are currently no comments.
