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The Voynich Manuscript May Be a Hoax (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, but we can only speculate on the intended outcome. If it was to trick a superstitious head of state that someone had secrete arcane knowledge that could be used to grant them supernatural powers, the con could perhaps pay off huge.