{"id":29927,"date":"2016-09-07T14:48:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T21:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/the-first-ever-copies-of-the-worlds-most-mysterious-book-are-about-to-be-released"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:17:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:17:48","slug":"the-first-ever-copies-of-the-worlds-most-mysterious-book-are-about-to-be-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/the-first-ever-copies-of-the-worlds-most-mysterious-book-are-about-to-be-released","title":{"rendered":"The first ever copies of the \u2018world\u2019s most mysterious book\u2019 are about to be released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-first-ever-copies-of-the-worlds-most-mysterious-book-are-about-to-be-released.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Spanish publishing house has finally been given permission to make exact copies of the <a href=\"http:\/\/beinecke.library.yale.edu\/collections\/highlights\/voynich-manuscript\"><em>Voynich Manuscript<\/em><\/a> \u2014 a 15th century book written in a mysterious coded language that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/6-of-the-hardest-codes-to-crack-that-will-drive-you-completely-bonkers\">no one has cracked.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For centuries, scientists have been trying to decipher the text. Some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/08\/23\/491033798\/mysterious-encrypted-medieval-manuscript-set-to-be-published-in-replica\">world\u2019s best cryptographers<\/a> have dedicated their lives to solving the puzzle \u2014 but no one\u2019s even gotten close. Now, with almost 900 copies about to go into circulation, we might finally get some answers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Voynich Manuscript has led some of the smartest people down rabbit holes for centuries,\u201d Bill Sherman from the Folger Shakespeare Library <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/express\/wp\/2014\/11\/20\/the-mysterious-voynich-manuscript-highlights-folger-shakespeare-librarys-decoding-the-renaissance-500-years-of-codes-and-ciphers\/?tid=a_inl\">told <em>The Washington Post<\/em> in 2014<\/a>, when he was about to open an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.folger.edu\/events\/the-voynich-manuscript\">exhibit on the text<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-first-ever-copies-of-the-world-s-most-mysterious-book-are-about-to-be-released\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-first-ever-copies-of-the-wor...e-released<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Spanish publishing house has finally been given permission to make exact copies of the Voynich Manuscript \u2014 a 15th century book written in a mysterious coded language that no one has cracked. For centuries, scientists have been trying to decipher the text. Some of the world\u2019s best cryptographers have dedicated their lives to solving [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66320,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29927\/revisions\/66320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}