A closer look
Carbon-dated to the early fifteenth century, the Voynich Manuscript is a 240-page illustrated book written in an entirely unknown, undecipherable language alongside bizarre drawings of nonexistent plants and naked women bathing in green liquid. For centuries, the smartest cryptographers, military codebreakers, and linguists on the planet have tried to translate the text, only to fail spectacularly. While romantic minds believe it contains lost alchemical secrets or alien knowledge, the most plausible and deeply hilarious theory is that it was just a medieval scam artist's fake magical grimoire designed to fleece a gullible rich royal out of their gold. We are basically worshiping the historical equivalent of a fifteenth-century crypto rug pull
