The world’s most mysterious book - Stephen Bax

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    Deep inside Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library lies a 240 page tome. Recently carbon dated to around 1420, its pages feature looping handwriting and hand drawn images seemingly stolen from a dream. It is called the Voynich manuscript, and it’s one of history’s biggest unsolved mysteries. The reason why? No one can figure out what it says. Stephen Bax investigates this cryptic work.
    Lesson by Stephen Bax, animation by TED-Ed.

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  • @commenturthegreat2915
    @commenturthegreat2915 Před 3 lety +4152

    Oh, so when some medieval guy does it it's "mysterious" and "captivating", but when I do it I "have terrible hand writing" and "need to go back to school"

    • @zenking5318
      @zenking5318 Před 2 lety +92

      Good writing kid wrote this
      Scientist : omg so mysterious and beautiful
      Me wrote this
      Scientist: argh I tough a demon wrote deez look at the handwritten

    • @yanmur986
      @yanmur986 Před 2 lety +34

      If it's ancient then it's epicccccccc

    • @NoCommonMeasure
      @NoCommonMeasure Před 2 lety

      lol, czcams.com/video/OwbkIzrcZIE/video.html

    • @sahilhasan9496
      @sahilhasan9496 Před 2 lety +1

      hahahahah

    • @losingmysanity4136
      @losingmysanity4136 Před 2 lety +33

      In a 100 years our bad handwriting would probably freak the future generation out, then they thought it was something mysterious even tho it was just our exam answer😂

  • @miacrapnell4634
    @miacrapnell4634 Před 5 lety +7962

    ‘After 100 years of frustration’
    Someone please carve that into my grave

    • @zezinharias
      @zezinharias Před 5 lety +223

      I find amusing that you think you can live 100 years.
      Another frustration to the list, I guess.

    • @miacrapnell4634
      @miacrapnell4634 Před 5 lety +71

      Thucydides yep, the frustration was that I actually lived to 100 yrs and one day, a final frustration

    • @chaitrak.s3943
      @chaitrak.s3943 Před 4 lety +5

      😂😂

    • @faz3662
      @faz3662 Před 4 lety +29

      Thucydides your comment gives me frustration

    • @deebo1186
      @deebo1186 Před 4 lety +2

      Mia Crapnell Lmfao 😂

  • @loveyourself1581
    @loveyourself1581 Před 2 lety +8595

    Can't imagine how many languages the humankind has forgotten.

    • @Sonicbro-xx6sg
      @Sonicbro-xx6sg Před 2 lety +127

      657.

    • @agoogleuser3853
      @agoogleuser3853 Před 2 lety +201

      We remember a lot, but dont realize how much we forgot

    • @dhineshr1771
      @dhineshr1771 Před 2 lety +183

      @@Sonicbro-xx6sg It would lot more than that... Some say In India alone out of 1800+ languages, only 1600+ lives today.

    • @NoCommonMeasure
      @NoCommonMeasure Před 2 lety +3

      wow I never thought of that
      czcams.com/video/OwbkIzrcZIE/video.html

    • @Ttegegg
      @Ttegegg Před 2 lety +25

      @@dhineshr1771 I mean only 200 less languages. Compare to the whole. Doesn’t sound that bad

  • @RendyRuban
    @RendyRuban Před 2 lety +2090

    Honestly, that book looks beautifully and artistically made. Especially those handwritings.

    • @NoCommonMeasure
      @NoCommonMeasure Před 2 lety +1

      I thought so as well.
      czcams.com/video/OwbkIzrcZIE/video.html

    • @Triadii
      @Triadii Před 2 lety +25

      yes the script looks very beautiful, like bit like arabic and russian script but totally different. Fascinating. The drawings are beautiful too

    • @pandorafalemias9819
      @pandorafalemias9819 Před rokem +2

      @@Triadii wouldn’t say arabic but it does have slavic tone to it

    • @andreatthenight3052
      @andreatthenight3052 Před rokem +10

      Certainly not the product of a conman! The work and time required for this is astronomical.

    • @sandrabulluck1896
      @sandrabulluck1896 Před rokem

      Looks like it might be light language to me. Which is frequency. Just like everyone and everything in the multiverse... just my theory.

  • @wes9809
    @wes9809 Před 4 lety +13993

    Could you imagine having a book you drew nonsense in and then hundreds of years later people think it's some magnificent work of complex art and dedicate years attempting to understand its 'complexity?'

    • @Qwerty-jc3so
      @Qwerty-jc3so Před 4 lety +406

      Yeah, they'd probably invent and discover things. Then they'd think it was divine wisdom from the ancient book, but in reality they made the theories themselves while trying to make sense out of nonsense.

    • @emon2689
      @emon2689 Před 4 lety +282

      The ultimate troll, I'd be laughing in my grave 😂🤣🤣

    • @aryanrawat5961
      @aryanrawat5961 Před 4 lety +36

      I think that's what it is

    • @tr1ppy795
      @tr1ppy795 Před 4 lety +174

      I dont think someone would waste their time writing all those words and drawing all those picturse, in all of those pages for a prank millions of years later lmao.

    • @potatoo4315
      @potatoo4315 Před 4 lety +128

      @@tr1ppy795 True that tho, and the book is probably hella thick so how come they have managed to construct those random letters in the book. It's probably a forgotten language or something. But the question is they haven't found a trace or a clue.

  • @nicholsencalope3543
    @nicholsencalope3543 Před 2 lety +7654

    introvert kid: *draws things out of boredom*
    people today: *the world's most mysterious book*

    • @jerinakhter8488
      @jerinakhter8488 Před 2 lety +8

      @hadia ahmad I like this one 👌😂

    • @NoCommonMeasure
      @NoCommonMeasure Před 2 lety +9

      lol, that is the most organized scribbling ever. czcams.com/video/OwbkIzrcZIE/video.html

    • @stefan6347
      @stefan6347 Před 2 lety +20

      @@NoCommonMeasure oh you don't know how organized we make our fictitious writing that made no sense.

    • @nicholsencalope3543
      @nicholsencalope3543 Před 2 lety +1

      @Gustavo Vitor ur not bad urself ☺️ u look cute too 😉

    • @chwow1553
      @chwow1553 Před 2 lety +4

      @@nicholsencalope3543 wtf

  • @pigpjs
    @pigpjs Před 2 lety +747

    In middle school my two best friends and I shared a diary we passed to each other. We wrote it in a language we made up. We also lost it and don't know what happened to it.
    Always assumed the Voynich Manuscript was the 1420s version of three best friends sharing a diary and then losing it to have it somehow become a great mystery.

  • @orangewedges
    @orangewedges Před 2 lety +386

    I had a friend who told me she used a secret code to write in her diary so that it was unreadable to anyone who might come upon it. This ancient mystery manuscript could very well be just someone's journal of their thoughts and dreams that they decided to write in a made-up script only they could understand lol.

    • @Runningformylife1983
      @Runningformylife1983 Před 2 lety +5

      And your very correct, it was finally fully translated and it was indeed someones diary. It had nothing of value in the writing it was just written in a forgotten language

    • @ogbogukalu1839
      @ogbogukalu1839 Před 2 lety +13

      @@Runningformylife1983 The manuscript has not been translated.

    • @Eisenkette
      @Eisenkette Před 2 lety +5

      Except most cyphers made are easily broken. This, not so much

    • @myfugitivecat
      @myfugitivecat Před 2 lety +1

      I don’t think so. The manuscript is all about plants and women how can it be someone’s diary?

    • @ericwood3709
      @ericwood3709 Před rokem +3

      @@Runningformylife1983 Your writing is terrible. You write your instead of you're, you fail to use apostrophes in your possessives, and you run sentences and phrases together without punctuation.

  • @augustvalek
    @augustvalek Před 5 lety +10713

    This gives me hope that my old notebooks will be found in 600 years and they'll think of them as a compendium on medicine when in truth are just the hastily and poorly written notes of a med student

    • @acetate909
      @acetate909 Před 5 lety +329

      So your notes are actually both. A modern medical reference guide and hastily written notes. Make sure that you seal them in laminate and dont crease the pages so you don't depreciate the value.

    • @kizhekamaran2273
      @kizhekamaran2273 Před 5 lety +64

      As a med student .. I can totally relate!

    • @MdSheraj
      @MdSheraj Před 5 lety +55

      The book and ink you use isn't designed to last. What will be left after a while will be just blank pages.

    • @cornedbread3669
      @cornedbread3669 Před 5 lety +13

      DrEsquizoide
      *wheeze* being a Med Student is haaaard

    • @cornedbread3669
      @cornedbread3669 Před 4 lety +9

      sarahchannel100
      I know but I’ve heard experiences that my Cousin as had (she’s in Med School), plus she’s in college. *wish her luck*

  • @sahilambede5559
    @sahilambede5559 Před 4 lety +14357

    ITS JUST THE LOST HOMEWORK OF AN ANCIENT KID

  • @dysn3961
    @dysn3961 Před 2 lety +41

    I guess it's also important to note that folks couldn't just get a journal for fun back then, it was considerable effort to do the binding, material, resources, inks, and so on to make a complete tome, so that kind of dedication as well as its age is quite significant

  • @outresru7751
    @outresru7751 Před 2 lety +71

    Also can we take a moment to appreciate the stop-motion technique used to create the graphics for this video?? absolutely amazing creativity !

  • @annnie7037
    @annnie7037 Před 3 lety +7418

    Imagine if someone randomly watched this video and understood what it said.

  • @coronabibi2092
    @coronabibi2092 Před 3 lety +21787

    This inspired me to write some gibberish to confuse the future generations

  • @KristenStieffel
    @KristenStieffel Před 2 lety +49

    Some medieval person invents a language and scholars are all like "what can it *possibly* be?!" Then 500 years later Tolkien does the same thing and scholars are like, "yeah, but that's just *genre* fiction."

  • @Honorou
    @Honorou Před 2 lety +52

    I must say that this is one of my dreams as a kid: create a written language and write a book using it. Can't wait for the day it will be done.

  • @FireShoxx
    @FireShoxx Před 4 lety +27019

    This is how future archeologist will describe our memes

    • @georgeszweden9497
      @georgeszweden9497 Před 3 lety +1166

      The "E" meme will give them a headache

    • @aarna6853
      @aarna6853 Před 3 lety +133

      Tell me, Isaac.

    • @FireShoxx
      @FireShoxx Před 3 lety +338

      Mirzə just like how we dig through dirt to find artifacts, in the far far future we may need to dig through files on the internet to find artifacts

    • @FireShoxx
      @FireShoxx Před 3 lety +112

      Mirzə Bro I don’t know. I just wanted to make a funny comment so let’s not overthink things

    • @parrotpepper502
      @parrotpepper502 Před 3 lety +26

      @@georgeszweden9497 I FORGOT ABOUT THAT MEME

  • @kato4820
    @kato4820 Před 4 lety +6043

    7 years old me trying to write a magic book:

    • @cherryxfanta
      @cherryxfanta Před 3 lety +9

      368 Likes + Top comment and no comments? Impossible?!

    • @kato4820
      @kato4820 Před 3 lety +22

      wow... when did this get so many like ?

    • @cherryxfanta
      @cherryxfanta Před 3 lety +33

      @@kato4820 Guess one of the spells in your magic book worked

    • @kato4820
      @kato4820 Před 3 lety +25

      @@cherryxfanta Nice, i begged my mom to not throw the book away

    • @abinothayyilsanoj4182
      @abinothayyilsanoj4182 Před 3 lety +4

      Hmmm interesting...

  • @melaneykk5986
    @melaneykk5986 Před 2 lety +90

    I feel it almost matters less what it actually is, than how much joy and thought has gone into it. If we learn someday that it holds the secret to remaining zit-free, or just understanding, and exploring a wonderful mystery, I am happy this object exists.

  • @lavya79
    @lavya79 Před 2 lety +38

    After numerous years, future contemporary historians will think the same about my friend's history notebook..

  • @secret_agent_arya
    @secret_agent_arya Před 2 lety +7687

    Every person who has seen this video, in some part of their heart, wants to be the person to translate this book.

    • @NoCommonMeasure
      @NoCommonMeasure Před 2 lety +9

      lol I just left a comment about this, I suggested they send the book to me. lol
      czcams.com/video/OwbkIzrcZIE/video.html

    • @jerinakhter8488
      @jerinakhter8488 Před 2 lety +119

      This is deep for everyone

    • @TFadlY
      @TFadlY Před 2 lety +91

      A challamge befor translating a book try decode this: uoy truh dna ,eil a llet annog reven eybdoog yas annog reven ,yrc uoy ekam annog reven uoy tresed dna dnuora nur annog reven nwowowod uoy tel annog reven ,pu uoy evig annog reven

    • @secret_agent_arya
      @secret_agent_arya Před 2 lety +27

      ​@@TFadlY Why???

    • @moguru3084
      @moguru3084 Před 2 lety +141

      @@TFadlY never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down never gonna run around and desert you never gonna give it up, never gonna say goodbye never gonna tell lie, and hurt you

  • @wowitsolinky
    @wowitsolinky Před 3 lety +8011

    i would love it if this was actually just the diary of a teenager with a big imagination lmaoooooo

    • @judiemaebelonio8923
      @judiemaebelonio8923 Před 2 lety +41

      Yesss

    • @mantosh56
      @mantosh56 Před 2 lety +150

      Well...if that is the case...than thats some EPIC imagination they might have had 0_0

    • @pariot7953
      @pariot7953 Před 2 lety +43

      As a teenager i littreally have so beyond imagination😂💜

    • @stella7677
      @stella7677 Před 2 lety +9

      @Nefelia S it probably wasn’t cuz where would they learn how to write

    • @stella7677
      @stella7677 Před 2 lety +7

      @Nefelia S ye nowadays but not many ppl knew back in the day

  • @svikasinigmss9662
    @svikasinigmss9662 Před rokem +9

    I had literal chills when I watched this video. I know that it could just be a diary of a big- headed teenager but it could also be the account of a period of history that was lost simply cause it wasn't rembered.

  • @mikemcdougal4142
    @mikemcdougal4142 Před 2 lety +33

    "Be sure to drink your ovaltine." Hilarious reference!

    • @Sonicbro-xx6sg
      @Sonicbro-xx6sg Před 2 lety

      To what?

    • @GaiaCarney
      @GaiaCarney Před 2 lety

      @@Sonicbro-xx6sg - it’s from the movie ‘A Christmas Story’ Ralph sends away for a Little Orphan Annie radio show ‘decoder ring’ and this is the message he ‘decodes’ A lousy advertisement 😝 best. movie.

    • @GaiaCarney
      @GaiaCarney Před 2 lety

      Mike McDougal - 🦵 thanks for your comment! I would imagine the mystery book is FRAGILÉ 😝

  • @dezraydenecker5315
    @dezraydenecker5315 Před 5 lety +13828

    Well one day future people will look back at memes and think the same thing..

    • @acetate909
      @acetate909 Před 5 lety +115

      Huh? The book in this video is a meme. All information disseminated through a system is a meme. Also, there is enough relevant lateral source material to decipher English texts so translation to a future language will likely not be an issue when looking back at our current writing through the lense of a future civilization.

    • @MohammadKhan-lw2yu
      @MohammadKhan-lw2yu Před 5 lety +173

      @@acetate909 *whoosh*

    • @pointlessopinion611
      @pointlessopinion611 Před 5 lety +37

      @Mohammad Khan , it's already happened, what is this mysterious h-humor?......we may never know

    • @Astruin
      @Astruin Před 5 lety +4

      Mmhmm

    • @alexaluv6001
      @alexaluv6001 Před 5 lety +4

      Amen

  • @Lol-cg1nk
    @Lol-cg1nk Před 3 lety +2767

    Ngl, that handwriting looks so beautiful, like when you see it the language feels familiar but you can't read it

    • @ngcstudios4704
      @ngcstudios4704 Před 2 lety +89

      Might be the language we see when we dream

    • @weliveinasociety1154
      @weliveinasociety1154 Před 2 lety +47

      @@ngcstudios4704 I’ve read letters/signs in my dream and they’ve all been in English.....
      Back to the drawing board.

    • @gst2800
      @gst2800 Před 2 lety +27

      once i wrote and spike an entire page in italian in my deeams, many years ago. something about the illuminati, which is crazy cause I never knew anything about them until recently.
      it was a lucid dream, it was crazy to suddenly know italian, and i was so confident i would remember that i didn't wrote it down.
      when i got up hrs later it was gone, just few words

    • @guineapiglife1111
      @guineapiglife1111 Před 2 lety +1

      👍👍👍

    • @yusufsangi9280
      @yusufsangi9280 Před 2 lety +1

      Armyyyyy! 💜

  • @sdovas
    @sdovas Před 2 lety +1

    Nice touch to reference Jean Shepherd's Little Orphan Annie-Ovaltine Code Ring schtick.

  • @jacobzaranyika9334
    @jacobzaranyika9334 Před 2 lety +1

    Thank you🙏 TED-Ed
    I will watch this later.

  • @sasharyan-king8908
    @sasharyan-king8908 Před 3 lety +4670

    children back in the day who made up their own language to communicate with each other in secret at school watching this like: 👁👄👁

    • @taejungyeonjinhwan7376
      @taejungyeonjinhwan7376 Před 3 lety +33

      yep lol

    • @TheClickbaiterA
      @TheClickbaiterA Před 3 lety +6

      @@emmag9987 dafay lukchi tarshi bie

    • @momo-ts6le
      @momo-ts6le Před 3 lety +8

      @@taejungyeonjinhwan7376 I know I'm late but....
      ONCE and STAY!!!🍭🍭

    • @taejungyeonjinhwan7376
      @taejungyeonjinhwan7376 Před 3 lety +4

      @@momo-ts6le omg so cool
      btw im new stay

    • @momo-ts6le
      @momo-ts6le Před 3 lety +2

      @@taejungyeonjinhwan7376 lol me too I am an armyonce
      I'm not still a stay , I basically know all their names , but I still don't know all the inside jokes of stays

  • @beckoning-chasm
    @beckoning-chasm Před 5 lety +3738

    "We've translated the first page! IT'S A COOKBOOK!!"

    • @ivyripple7695
      @ivyripple7695 Před 5 lety +76

      Beckoning Chasm
      Wait I can’t tell if u are joking but I’m just going to imagine u aren’t so that I can be excited about something
      Y A Y ! ! !
      edit : oh no I just looked it up and it’s not true :((

    • @anthonychang2298
      @anthonychang2298 Před 5 lety +37

      Ivy Ripple gullible much?

    • @ivyripple7695
      @ivyripple7695 Před 5 lety +42

      Anthony Chang
      Yes I am very gullible.
      But shhhh, we don’t judge -.-

    • @rielgabriel88
      @rielgabriel88 Před 5 lety +47

      Ivy Ripple it’s a twilight zone reference :)

    • @zendriagoodwinkins1071
      @zendriagoodwinkins1071 Před 5 lety +16

      to serve man..lol

  • @quint1715
    @quint1715 Před 2 lety

    I think leaving something so puzzling behind for so many years is the most inspiring way to leave this earth

  • @lastwolf42
    @lastwolf42 Před 2 lety +2

    I like the idea of very creative friends, siblings, or lovers who created a fantasy world and language and wrote notes back and forth to each other
    That or maybe even twins who developed a script for their cryptophasia

  • @fairyblu6929
    @fairyblu6929 Před 3 lety +5862

    "What do you think it is?"
    The diary of a mediaeval Wimpy Kid.

    • @dandelion40k87
      @dandelion40k87 Před 2 lety +51

      *ancient

    • @kidistgebreyes9763
      @kidistgebreyes9763 Před 2 lety +12

      👏👏

    • @1CT1
      @1CT1 Před 2 lety +22

      Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and you will be saved. John 3:16 (Share the good news of the gospel around the world!)...... ,,..
      Have a wonderful rest of your day/night everyone, may the LORD bless you all, and farewell!

    • @pawpawworldchanel
      @pawpawworldchanel Před 2 lety +6

      This is a story of our ancestor before they become human, they were plants, until god creates adam and eve in the garden of edden, we are genetically modified in gods laboratory, even eve was made from adam ribs, and at the time they ate the forbiden fruit, it made them change from plants reproduction to human reproduction, in which we leaves our plants body to become animal body, where we have our lust, emotion, anger etc, not inocent plant anymore

    • @lynxb8300
      @lynxb8300 Před 2 lety +4

      this is what I thought

  • @khawlaelattar9154
    @khawlaelattar9154 Před 3 lety +5757

    "What do you think it is ?"
    Lemme see:
    _ unreadable handwriting
    _ a mysterious language
    _ drawings and doodles
    That's just my notebook

  • @owenofhb8319
    @owenofhb8319 Před 2 lety +6

    Maybe the real Voynich Manuscript was the friends we made along the way

  • @SpuriusFlavius
    @SpuriusFlavius Před 19 hodinami +1

    I am time traveler and this is my’s first time seeing this book,It is a dialect of Latin and Arabic spoken off the coast of Massila ,france , I personally used to call it massilen because modern historians didn’t name it [the dialect]. It’s possible it’s not even from Europe [the book], I remember people trading into ports of massila used to speak this dialect,it emerged in the glory days of massila died out slowly during 1700s it is an ancient language but people as they were traders didn’t write much in it. The book is just a language tradesmen around the massila to Arles region trading good from Egypt n others.

  • @pvvineet1722
    @pvvineet1722 Před 3 lety +3512

    When decoded its "Never gonna give you up" put in loop.

  • @SinaZarin
    @SinaZarin Před 5 lety +4735

    Some medieval jokester is laughing at us

    • @arshpreetkaur9
      @arshpreetkaur9 Před 4 lety +17

      I too feel the same !! 😂

    • @pandapvp1649
      @pandapvp1649 Před 4 lety +18

      It's Turkish writing from the 1400's. Author is probably laughing at you tho

    • @SinaZarin
      @SinaZarin Před 4 lety +6

      @@pandapvp1649 didn't turks write in persian script in 1400? Suljeks of rum (around 1200 ) did as far i know

    • @pandapvp1649
      @pandapvp1649 Před 4 lety +7

      Sina Zarin thats pre-ottomans. The manuscript was carbondated of leather pieces in the book to 1420 the ottomons ruled turkey in this time. Fyi There have been multiple pages already translated from modern turkish.

    • @stinewatson3875
      @stinewatson3875 Před 4 lety +1

      HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

  • @se7ensnakes
    @se7ensnakes Před 2 lety +3

    I believe that at the time that it was written the information in this book was very valuable. People had somewhat limited understanding compare to today. There are plants that could kill you, and plants that can make you well. Perhaps this book is a little about what was usable back then.

  • @78thandSynth
    @78thandSynth Před 11 měsíci

    This was presented very well. Good watch

  • @gachastudios9844
    @gachastudios9844 Před 4 lety +5225

    The people who made this are face palming in heaven

  • @LITTLEIMY8
    @LITTLEIMY8 Před 7 lety +3022

    Have you tried turning it off and then on again?

    • @jmyl18ify
      @jmyl18ify Před 7 lety +10

      Aneesa Moss!!

    • @findme3764
      @findme3764 Před 6 lety +5

      Yes, but it just won't work!

    • @navvyeanand2083
      @navvyeanand2083 Před 6 lety +29

      i think it may be a language but only it is unsolved
      my sister and I speak a language only we know so it is possible that it is a language

    • @kellymartin051
      @kellymartin051 Před 6 lety

      Aneesa hahaha!

    • @TheKingofdans
      @TheKingofdans Před 6 lety +2

      lmfaooooo genius 😂😂😂

  • @VojueC
    @VojueC Před 2 lety +6

    One episode of documentary series "Czech Mysteries" by Czech TV was about this book (since it is connected to Prague). It is unfortunatelly only in Czech language but it is very well done (much more detailed - 40 minutes). I wish you guys could see that, you would not be like "It's just some random medieval dude's dairy" after that.

  • @theruleofthree2851
    @theruleofthree2851 Před 2 lety +1

    This is an intriguing story and I think I have a wild idea as to what it might be.

  • @ShawnRavenfire
    @ShawnRavenfire Před 6 lety +3160

    I wonder if some future generation will find one of my old high school notebooks that I would scribble on and have scholars trying to decipher it.

    • @eve36368
      @eve36368 Před 6 lety +8

      Yass Queen!

    • @CJin-tp4iz
      @CJin-tp4iz Před 6 lety +49

      Shawn Ravenfire WOWOWOW! You may have just solved the mystery!😂

    • @kommenttimyrsky451
      @kommenttimyrsky451 Před 6 lety +93

      "This page seems to be a complaint on the current school system and theaching, but that would be silly!"

    • @bigzo2186
      @bigzo2186 Před 6 lety +3

      Shawn Ravenfire they would know it was just a student writing on a note book

    • @Chris-sch
      @Chris-sch Před 6 lety +2

      Lol dude u made my day

  • @axielily536
    @axielily536 Před 3 lety +1201

    1:37 can we talk about how pretty the handwriting is?

  • @maria-san
    @maria-san Před rokem +6

    there's 7 of us siblings, my oldest brother invented alphabets (not exactly languages) and all of us learned it and used it all the time. i would write words in my notebook and my friends would be puzzled at it

  • @joshuahamm2280
    @joshuahamm2280 Před 2 lety +1

    2:06 was gold! "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine", from "A Christmas Story" (1983). 😆

  • @paolob.5667
    @paolob.5667 Před 4 lety +4215

    Spoiler: it's the first troll in history.

  • @syfx1485
    @syfx1485 Před 3 lety +1105

    Plot twist : The writer actually wanted to make a drawing book for kids but used auto-generated subtitles instead

  • @nadztt
    @nadztt Před 2 lety +4

    I think this could be a journal of someone's thoughts, dreams and random doodles.🤷‍♀️

  • @kanrup5199
    @kanrup5199 Před rokem +4

    It has astrology signs and plant drawings. Maybe something alchemy related. Obviously if it was a true complete language that's used here, maybe they are just using a different letter script. It's fairly difficult to artificially create a complete language. Even Tolkien's Elvish/Dwarfish were not fully complete.

  • @ElectricToast2099
    @ElectricToast2099 Před 7 lety +1143

    Super computers from the year 2099 will eventually translate it and will say, "it's just a prank, bro." over and over.

    • @synchromation9491
      @synchromation9491 Před 6 lety +17

      yes it will

    • @synchromation9491
      @synchromation9491 Před 6 lety +29

      also a bunch of lebron james and my name is jeffs

    • @jameskkm
      @jameskkm Před 6 lety +7

      What makes you think we'll live to see 2099?

    • @Zeus-sv6wi
      @Zeus-sv6wi Před 6 lety +14

      James Kerch-Matthias To be fair he didn’t say we will live to 2099, just when it get’s to that time they might decode it.

    • @emilioarmenta7780
      @emilioarmenta7780 Před 6 lety +1

      TheCadillacCat so true

  • @dheeladheel
    @dheeladheel Před 7 lety +1676

    If scholars found my English note book in 300 or so years they'd probably think its from a lost culture or a new language or something.

    • @raiseup1453
      @raiseup1453 Před 7 lety +81

      Slingger Adheel difference : back in the 15th century, not that many people could read and write and when they did they would do it for important works not to write down English classes notes as you say. It would take a scholar to do it, not the average joe. Moreover, it's a book with hundreds of pages and coloured images. Affording paper and ink was surely not as easy as it is today. So your comparison is definitely irrelevant.

    • @stevescoffee8325
      @stevescoffee8325 Před 7 lety +86

      O my goodness this nerd don't get a joke

    • @_extrathicc
      @_extrathicc Před 7 lety +17

      OMG those retards cannot see how bad the "joke" is.

    • @heyjude8258
      @heyjude8258 Před 7 lety +16

      Slingger Adheel the joke is saying that he/she has a really bad handwriting just to clarify to those who dont get it.

    • @dheeladheel
      @dheeladheel Před 7 lety +4

      Sushi Wasabi yup, its barely legible now

  • @saoirse6406
    @saoirse6406 Před 2 lety +3

    You never know, it could be a studious teen's journal to sketch and scribble gibberish in.❤️

  • @gordonnicol9542
    @gordonnicol9542 Před rokem +2

    This is a fabulous and concise video of what the Voynich Manuscript is or might be. I paid £35 for the The Voynich manuscript facsimile which is a gorgeous full size representation of the real thing and beautifully illustrated and, although I'm the proud owner of this gorgeously created facsimile, this short video would definitely be all the average interested party would need to give them a superb taster of it. I love the sprinkled animations which are just right.....not too cheesy or intruding but just right. So, very well done to Stephen Bax. In this short video I believe you've captured the essence of the manuscript.......and a big thanks from Bonnie Scotland.
    My thoughts on this undecipherable mystery are that, since most of us who will look at it will try to logically find what the text is saying but, what if a group of people who don't think logically say perhaps autistic or similarly off the spectrum people were given the book to look at in an illogical and completely different way..................maybe then there might be some progress : )

  • @xanderav2547
    @xanderav2547 Před 4 lety +4584

    just a diary with a secret language some kid and his friend made

  • @IWantToStayAtYourHouse
    @IWantToStayAtYourHouse Před 7 lety +1344

    Imagine in 1000 years. Poeple will be confused why we have posters of a dead gorrila and why we had pictures with white text at the top and bottom of the page.

    • @Hashazer
      @Hashazer Před 7 lety +24

      An idiot cant solve a meme without knowing the meme

    • @alexcarsley7608
      @alexcarsley7608 Před 7 lety +11

      An idiot I disagree that they'll be confused unless civilization crumbles between now and then which I suppose is likely with the way things seem to be going. if civilization is unbroken then there won't be any problem understanding the language. like we can understand old languages no longer in use for the last 2000 years and older.

    • @plushxwx
      @plushxwx Před 7 lety +1

      An idiot normie

    • @cranberrywb100
      @cranberrywb100 Před 7 lety +56

      I think the knowledge of memes will be in future history books and they'll learn about how sad of a generation we were. Like instead of knowing who the creator of Mona Lisa was, they'd have to know the creator of Pepe the frog.

    • @jojojorisjhjosef
      @jojojorisjhjosef Před 7 lety +36

      Lol, no one is gonna remember us bruh

  • @code_grammer7496
    @code_grammer7496 Před 2 lety +1

    "Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it."

  • @zion-istslayer
    @zion-istslayer Před rokem +4

    4:10
    I am really sure this is a Botany book, and how that picture relates to the fact that a female gametophyte of plants consists of 7 Cells. Notice how they're coming out of a plant, and they're 7 in number and have the shapes of a women. If my concern is true, then the person who wrote this was an exceptional Botanist.

  • @hypsolinehypsilone6785
    @hypsolinehypsilone6785 Před 6 lety +813

    Every time i finish watching I'm like "ok now let's see the comments "

    • @themrsnakebitee
      @themrsnakebitee Před 6 lety +5

      Hypsoline Hypsilone ain't nobody got no time for that boi i read the comments while i watch

    • @xxlittlelunaxx3723
      @xxlittlelunaxx3723 Před 5 lety

      I’m the 666th like

  • @MoonDystopia
    @MoonDystopia Před 7 lety +25920

    it's a compilation of the dankest medieval memes.

  • @maleeklateef8478
    @maleeklateef8478 Před 2 lety +24

    Narrator: For over 100 years, scientist have tried to crack the code of the book without breakthrough.
    Narrator to me: What do you think it is?
    Well I think it's a book no one understands just yet.

  • @theoking2821
    @theoking2821 Před 9 měsíci

    I'm shocked you guys didn't talk about the Cotex Gigas. Maybe another video?👀

  • @soxvo
    @soxvo Před 3 lety +3447

    Is no one going to talk about how beautifully made this video is done? I love it :(

  • @iftekhar77
    @iftekhar77 Před 5 lety +583

    it’s comforting to know my doodle book may be studied in the future

    • @Someone-ig7we
      @Someone-ig7we Před 4 lety

      They won't. The english language is too big lol

  • @dougvanminnen7537
    @dougvanminnen7537 Před 2 lety +1

    My guess is that It was written by someone:
    - With lots of free time on their hands and therefore was wealthy
    - Had very bad hand writing
    - An overactive imagination
    - And liked doodling
    That's it, nothing more; but of course we all love to overthink things and make it more complicated then it really is.

  • @Willowerry
    @Willowerry Před rokem +2

    I think I saw a video where people figured out that the book was written in Turkish! Although, the author(s) probably didn't know how to properly spell the words they heard, so they just wrote down what they heard. Do take this with a handful of salt, not just a pinch, because I might be wrong about a thing or two. I hope this helps anyone? If anyone is curious, I think you can still find the video. Type in "Decyphering the Voynich Manuscript" or something into the searchbar, you might find the video

  • @ethanhawksley9097
    @ethanhawksley9097 Před 5 lety +1919

    "How To Survive Your First Night In Minecraft"

  • @Pilbaran00b
    @Pilbaran00b Před 7 lety +2656

    Just gotta say the way you presented this video is beautiful. From the animations and art to the sound in the background and the soothing voice. Nice

  • @carsonlamont8869
    @carsonlamont8869 Před 2 lety

    Please do a video on the codex gigas and maybe there's other ancient books I'm not fully aware of

  • @larryhatcher8927
    @larryhatcher8927 Před 2 lety +2

    It was Voynich...I'm about 90% sure on that. No had ever heard of this book until Voynich brought it in 1912. He was pretty much a genius. He knew where to get the paper and how to make the ink

  • @radhikamalviya5196
    @radhikamalviya5196 Před 4 lety +3583

    "The world's most mysterious book"
    Me: Maths Book?

  • @voiwithad
    @voiwithad Před 7 lety +1753

    This book may forever remain *UNSOLVED*

    • @lilikazhimomi9822
      @lilikazhimomi9822 Před 7 lety +93

      would love to see an episode on this one.

    • @shenahpark1011
      @shenahpark1011 Před 7 lety +20

      Nietzsche's Butthole it would only be an unsolved episode if someone died because of it.

    • @tallybee9091
      @tallybee9091 Před 7 lety +20

      kira lane
      maybe someone did, that's the *mystery*

    • @bridget4858
      @bridget4858 Před 7 lety +13

      Trang Nguyen Love that reference.

    • @luffyd.monkey8701
      @luffyd.monkey8701 Před 7 lety +8

      gosh darn it 😂

  • @-stefanv-5439
    @-stefanv-5439 Před 2 lety

    There is an online pdf of it available, and just from the pictures it looks like how to grow, culture and grafting plants and when to harvest them (with some different calendars available in that time), so you can make some kind of medicine out of it. But its very wired especially towards the end.

  • @thaliagrace6631
    @thaliagrace6631 Před 2 lety +1

    Started and ended with absolute mysteriousness..

  • @albalawideema6832
    @albalawideema6832 Před 4 lety +814

    It is so painful to think that there might be important breakthroughs and knowledge humanity has discovered and then lost in translation

    • @arcanesereinrides
      @arcanesereinrides Před 4 lety +57

      Yes! Was thinking the same thing but ppl here are too much into making memes and jokes..... thank you

    • @aresnguyen_rsv
      @aresnguyen_rsv Před 3 lety +63

      Oh you will be hurt more to think about how many thousands books and artworks have been destroyed by accidents, disasters and movements (nazism, communism, revolutions etc...) that we can actually read but they've gone forever.

    • @cupcakemcsparklebutt9051
      @cupcakemcsparklebutt9051 Před 3 lety

      Agreed

    • @justinwbohner
      @justinwbohner Před 3 lety +3

      There aren't any. It wasn't until very recently that people figured out that metals can't be transmuted and diseases are caused by germs. Most "ancient knowledge" is nonsense unless it was an eyewitness account of some rare event. Even the surviving wonders of the ancients are nothing more than large stacks of rocks.

    • @emmajhason7856
      @emmajhason7856 Před 3 lety +4

      It's been translated, and I hate to break it to you, it's just a book written about how to use plants as medecine (the most basic book ever) so no lost knowledge there, the language is ancient turkish if you were wondering

  • @daniistrwbrry
    @daniistrwbrry Před 2 lety +1

    "after 100 years of frustration" sounds like school to me

  • @martinpickr9582
    @martinpickr9582 Před 2 lety +7

    Either someone wrote gibberish in a book and sold it as ancient knowledge (which would be absolutely frickin amazing) or someone was tripping balls for like 2 days straight and wrote a book

    • @nastya0987
      @nastya0987 Před 2 lety +1

      It's more likely that it is a forgotten language. There were many many languages that were lost, especially after the crusades

  • @MultiSam123456789101
    @MultiSam123456789101 Před 4 lety +157

    The book kinda looks like bio notes from that one girl who has all the glitter pens and markers in class and writes in cursive but when you ask for her notes she refuses.

  • @williamshakespeare8748
    @williamshakespeare8748 Před 7 lety +2697

    Those 15th century 4Chan trolls crack me up.

  • @DamirOlejar
    @DamirOlejar Před dnem

    The only word I could decipher was written in an old German dialect, spoken in the area of Switzerland and northern Italy. It was a phonetic-like representation of a zodiac (Pisces or the word "fish"). However it looked like the word was added by someone who did not create the manuscript, and that more than just a few people were adding content. If you took a piece of a glass, a book, and dimmed the light, you could trace similar letters onto a blank page while reflecting the written text (scrying witchcraft)... or if you were a foreigner on a Chinese trade ship trying to log everything you hear and see... that is what the journal would look like. Also, there are some patterns that suggest a music rhythm rather than a language... Also, imagine what it would look like if an illiterate person were to invent a writing while being familiar with the concept of writing. I think that we would see similar patterns if the same language were in question.

  • @helenmary1201
    @helenmary1201 Před rokem

    This video is very well made! Wow!!

  • @joymaebalmes
    @joymaebalmes Před 7 lety +3801

    Imagine when you just want to doodle shits and they thought it's a relevant mystery :D :D

    • @jeraldvannbuhat6185
      @jeraldvannbuhat6185 Před 7 lety +31

      Maybe! But in history only conscious/clever human beings does this sht matter. For me it is a message for all the generations.

    • @evelynfarfellwooosh1219
      @evelynfarfellwooosh1219 Před 7 lety +12

      Joy Balmes You're a shit.
      don't call the history shit.

    • @joymaebalmes
      @joymaebalmes Před 7 lety +41

      the same for me, a mystery can be anything. IMAGINE this, what if the author just want to put whatever he likes on the paper (e.g. maybe he likes those plants and he's very curious about astronomy) and for him, he's plainly writing it and everyone thought that the answer to every question in the universe is inside that book. Maybe, probably not. The answer will be uncertain. I want to put my thoughts in a more funny way. :D

    • @jeraldvannbuhat6185
      @jeraldvannbuhat6185 Před 7 lety +3

      frankie paul It's just an expression of my word man don't be serious! So you too want to be call you the as the same:: shit? :)

    • @joymaebalmes
      @joymaebalmes Před 7 lety +10

      frankie paul Which part of my sentence is 'history is shit'? Point it out and I'll gladly correct myself.

  • @ItachiUchiha-nx2sw
    @ItachiUchiha-nx2sw Před 7 lety +601

    Prank level: over 9000

  • @AA1YL
    @AA1YL Před 16 dny

    Own a copy of this book it feels real to me. I feel someone from hollow earth while visiting us left it behind… no different than us when we explore leaving stuff behind. This is a language still used today, I feel this in my soul!

  • @blissas7261
    @blissas7261 Před dnem

    You know sometimes book that hold mysterious secrets usually be a dull book that is nothing little of a secret

  • @meiwu9293
    @meiwu9293 Před 3 lety +493

    Props to the animators who build a small recreation of the book.

  • @klesida6924
    @klesida6924 Před 6 lety +774

    that's why teachers insist on us to write our names in every paper

    • @eve36368
      @eve36368 Před 6 lety +4

      klesida gjana yet they insist cursive & it makes us illegible

    • @houdasamad
      @houdasamad Před 5 lety +2

      This comment is incredible

    • @ava_niche
      @ava_niche Před 5 lety +7

      It really woudln't matter as you would write it in the same language, which no one can read.

    • @Gidiotic
      @Gidiotic Před 5 lety +3

      And good handwriting

    • @supertankken2931
      @supertankken2931 Před 5 lety +1

      Yup

  • @franktakcsvonbraun8109
    @franktakcsvonbraun8109 Před rokem +1

    My theory: a constructed language made and used by a small group of friends who were either nuns or monks (mainly because they were the groups most likely to have the knowledge and ability to write, illustrate, and bind the manuscript) that created their own fantasy world/story. Our ancestors weren't as dour as we portray them. I'm still interested in knowing what it says but this is my best guess as to what it is.

  • @careliz
    @careliz Před 2 lety

    Consulta: si descubrí qué es el manuscrito, dónde debiera comunicarlo?

  • @starsandsuch7778
    @starsandsuch7778 Před 7 lety +779

    Aight, now I have to spend my whole summer researching this thing.

    • @skyline6500
      @skyline6500 Před 7 lety +42

      Uniquegirl 10 Have fun, been doing it myself before.

    • @amandadube156
      @amandadube156 Před 7 lety +6

      Uniquegirl 10 the "stuff you should know" episode about it is a good start

    • @mcrews44
      @mcrews44 Před 7 lety +20

      Uniquegirl 10 I've been trying on and off for years to reasearch it ever since I saw a documentary about it, I've tried to get people I know interested in it, but nobody cares really but me, I think it's so cool

    • @hikarikouno
      @hikarikouno Před 7 lety +10

      Find the book and go on a summer adventure with your sister. :D

    • @starsandsuch7778
      @starsandsuch7778 Před 7 lety +8

      HikariKouno21 yess!! I shall drag my friends along for an adventure!

  • @majarose4112
    @majarose4112 Před 7 lety +700

    IT'S SOMEBODY'S DIARY STOP READING IT

  • @hiimpiglet4415
    @hiimpiglet4415 Před rokem +1

    bucket list: write some random scribbles on an old notebook and bury it

  • @sananidhi3724
    @sananidhi3724 Před rokem

    the more i think of it the more it seems to be an encyclopedia. i mean if they ever try to even translate it, i guess the most they are going to find is some kind of rare species of plants that we never knew that existed or maybe just see what those century people thought of it and appreciate their efforts.

  • @vinetu73
    @vinetu73 Před 7 lety +217

    I love these types of mysteries cause they really show that no matter how much time has passed, there are still many secrets and mysteries in history unsolved.

  • @GenJotsu
    @GenJotsu Před 7 lety +725

    The creator of the book is one of the oldest and smartest troll; the book is just a masterpiece of a troll.

  • @cerebrummaximus3762
    @cerebrummaximus3762 Před 2 lety

    I can't remember if it's this book or another, but I remember reading somewhere that it was supposed to imitate the feeling of a child too young to be able to read or make sense of the world come across an encyclopedia.

  • @latneyb
    @latneyb Před 2 lety

    Cool to be here in 2021 and seeing what people thought about the manuscript before they actually solved the mystery.

  • @deeprana3366
    @deeprana3366 Před 7 lety +1166

    The book is written by a man who forgets to write his name.

    • @Kimoto504
      @Kimoto504 Před 7 lety +51

      LOL, just like a lot of students do on their assignments. It was a group project and the students failed to write their names on it. They got a 0 because the professor was strict and he just threw it into his file cabinet.

    • @MinecraftCutiepie
      @MinecraftCutiepie Před 7 lety +29

      Or woman. You never know

    • @deeprana3366
      @deeprana3366 Před 7 lety +11

      BlueBerryKing, Only a man can do this stuffs coz woman's don't have the brains to do these things...

    • @MinecraftCutiepie
      @MinecraftCutiepie Před 7 lety +24

      I smell a troll

    • @KookiesNolly
      @KookiesNolly Před 7 lety +53

      Maybe he wrote his name on every single pages. How can you say he didn't?