![]() ![]() MENLO PARK, CA – JULY 11: Timothy King, left, Ph.D. King said Bax, who died in 2017, “was right, but not entirely.” He credited Bax as “the first to provide correct readings of Voynich Manuscript writing system characters,” and said his team expanded on Bax’s work. Bax said he identified names for recognizable herbs and stars in the illustrations and determined the book was likely a treatise on nature written in a Near Eastern or Asian language. ![]() They were inspired by Stephen Bax, a linguistics professor at the University of Bedfordshire who in 2014 published research claiming to have partially solved the language riddle using methods that deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs. King, an archaeologist, linguist, and epigrapher of ancient Mesoamerian cultures, became interested in the Voynich Manuscript two years ago through one of his students, Bryce Beasley, who was fascinated with it. In May, Gerard Cheshire, a visiting research associate at the University of Bristol, said in a published paper that he had identified the writing through “ingenuity and lateral thinking” as an extinct “proto-romance” tongue.īut critics pounded Cheshire’s research as well, with Davis calling it “aspirational, circular, self-fulfilling nonsense,” and the University of Bristol quickly withdrew its press release. Anthropology instructor from Foothill College, shows an image of the Voynich Manuscript that he and his team helped decipher to a group at SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif., on Thursday, July 11, 2019. ![]() MENLO PARK, CA – JULY 11: Timothy King, Ph.D. Critics assailed their use of Google Translate to interpret some of the text. In January 2018, University of Alberta computer scientists led by language processing expert Greg Kondrak claimed to have decoded the manuscript using artificial intelligence and concluded it was written in a form of Hebrew. Some suggested it was mere gibberish to perpetrate a hoax, others that it is some sort of code to conceal pagan heresies. There have been plenty of theories about the manuscript and claims to have cracked its cryptic writing. Its vellum pages were radio-carbon dated in 2011 to the early 15th century. Polish antiquarian book dealer Wilfrid Voynich bought it from the Jesuits in 1912 and took it with him when he moved to the United States before World War I. The latest research from King is getting a similar reception. “We can read it.” An image from “A Proposal for Reading the Voynich Manuscript” July 2019 by Tim King, Alessandra Andrisani, Bryce Beasley and Julian Condo.(Courtesy of Tim King).īut many others have claimed to have solved the manuscript’s language riddle over the years, most recently a British researcher in May, only to have other scholars dismiss their work. “We’ve now unlocked the door,” said Timothy King, a Foothill instructor who earned a doctorate in anthropological sciences from Stanford University. It has mystified scholars for more than a century since a Polish collector acquired the medieval book now known by his name, its parchment pages filled with colorful illustrations of plants, stars and bathing women and elegantly handwritten in an unknown language.īay Area researchers this week led by a Foothill College anthropology instructor say they’ve now found the key to translating the Voynich Manuscript‘s cryptic text, a first step they say that will allow medieval language experts to build on their work and unravel the manuscript’s mysteries. ![]() CLICK HERE if you are having a problem viewing the photos on a mobile device ![]()
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