Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Books do not simply appear.

Someone must undertake the tasks to sit down and compose the words on the page for another

person to read.

And that's the main purpose of a book, to be read, to convey information to another

individual so that they might learn or be entertained, or in some cases both.

A book is a vessel, and the person who opens that vessel is meant to consume the contents

within.

Which is what makes the Voynich manuscript such a complex and strange volume.

It was discovered by an antiquarian bookseller named Willifred Voynich in 1912.

It had been passed down through the ages, from Holy Roman emperors to doctors to check

collectors going missing for two centuries until finally ending up in the hands of Voynich.

He purchased it in a small Italian village and brought it back to London where he kept

it hidden for several years.

Then in 1915, Voynich decided to reveal the manuscript to the world.

And scholars were befuddled by it.

Measuring roughly the size of a standard modern hardcover, the book is comprised of 240

vellum pages, bound within a goat skin binding.

In 2009, radio carbon dating tests pegged its creation to some time in the early 1400s.

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