This also happens to a certain degree in real languages.'Дr Montemurro says the text can't be a medieval hoax because the such knowledge of language structure was not known at the time. 'The semantic networks we obtained clearly show that related words tend to share structure similarities. When the topic shifts, other words are needed. 'Over long spans of texts, words leave a statistical signature about their use. 'There is substantial evidence that content-bearing words tend to occur in a clustered pattern, where they are required as part of the specific information being written,' he says. Using modern statistical methods and computer analysis, Dr Montemurro says he has found 'semantic networks' of related words within the text. 'It's not easy to dismiss the manuscript as simple nonsensical gibberish, as it shows a significant structure.' 'The text is unique, there are no similar works and all attempts to decode any possible message in the text have failed,' Marcelo Montemurro, a theoretical physicist by day, told BBC News. Illustrations throughout the manuscript suggest it could be a guide to herbal medicine, but many of the plants don't match any known species. Its text has never been deciphered, as it bears no obvious similarity to any known language. The manuscript, named for Polish man Wilfrid Michael Voynich who purchased it in 1912, has been carbon dated to the early 15th century. A mysterious manuscript whose meaning has eluded linguists and cryptographers for centuries could be about to give up its secrets.ДЄccording to new research published in scientific journal PLOS One, the Voynich manuscript contains patterns and structures 'compatible with those found in real language sequences'.

Voynich manuscript hoax