Was Voynich Manuscript Written in Aztec Language? Victoria Woollaston - Daily Mail
go to original February 6, 2014

Dark Secrets of the Mysterious Voynich Manuscript (Shocking True Stories)

For decades, researchers have been trying in vain to decipher ancient texts written on the Voynich manuscript - yet they may have been looking for inspiration in the wrong place.

A U.S. botanist studied illustrations of the plants throughout the 15th century book and pinpointed a number of them to the Central American region now known as Mexico.

Dr. Arthur Tucker claims at least 37 of the 303 plants would have grown in the region during the 15th and 16th century and believes the text is, therefore, written in the Aztec language of Nahuatl.

The writing is so bizarre, sceptics have stated the book is a hoax or that the writing is nonsense.

The Voynich manuscript was discovered in an Italian monastery in 1912 by book dealer Wilfred Voynich.

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THE LOST LANGUAGE OF NAHUATL: Nahuatl originated in Central Mexico during the 7th century. It was the spoken predominantly by the Aztecs. Following the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the 16th century, the alphabet was replaced with Latin. Nahuatl became a literary language, used in poetry and passages, similar to the Voynich manuscript. Varieties of Nahuatl are still spoken by approximately 1.5 million Nahua people in Central Mexico.

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