In 1912, a Polish rare book dealer purchased an extremely old codex that contained an unknown system of writing.

Since then, the best and brightest minds in cryptography, linguistics, and artificial intelligence have not been able to decipher what's written in the book.

That hasn't stopped people from trying and periodically making claims that they've cracked the code.

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Located in the Bernanke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University is a book that has

confounded experts for centuries. The volume is a Codex which is a handbound book of pages made

out of Vellum.

Vellum was rather expensive but durable surface for writing prior to the mass production of

paper.

It's made out of animal skin, usually a calf.

The book is most notable for its pages of script, which are not in any known character

set or language. There are about 240 pages, and each page has a hand-drawn illustration.

The first section of the book has images of plants.

The next section has images of stars and astronomical objects.

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