What modern science has actually confirmed about the Voynich Manuscript — and why the results are stranger than the myths.
In the years since I wrote about the Voynich Manuscript's history and the theories surrounding it, the question I receive most often isn't about the cipher or the chimeric plants or the uncharted constellations. It's a simpler, more fundamental question: how do we actually know the thing is real?
It's a fair challenge. The internet has layered so much mythology over this...