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What is the Voynich manuscript?

We’ve been able to decipher ancient Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs, Cuneiform, and Old Persian, but not Voynichese.
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Assyrian cuneiform tablet from Kanesh(Courtesy of the Yale Babylonian Collection/Photography by Alberto Urcia/Text NBC 1907) Harvard University Assyriologist Gojko Barjamovic is currently ...
Astronomical cuneiform texts Babylonian ephemerides of the Seleucid period for the motion of the sun, the moon, and the planets Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...
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