Coded, Erased, Rediscovered: Manuscript Mysteries

The afterlives of the page: the undeciphered Voynich Manuscript, the Archimedes Palimpsest — erased by a pious scribe, rebuilt by X-ray and multispectral imaging — and the book hunters who rescued libraries from war.

Playlist by @illuminated_art

14 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. The world’s most mysterious book - Stephen Bax — TED-Ed
2. The World’s Most Mysterious Book That No One Can Decode • Mystery Files — Watcher
3. Voynich Manuscript Decoded | The Mysterious Book Finally Solved? — The Why Files
4. The Voynich Manuscript: A History — The Histocrat
5. Secrets of the Voynich Manuscript — hochelaga
6. The book that no human can read — Brew
7. The $2 Million Lost Book of Archimedes — Ben Syversen
8. William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes — TED
9. Voynich Manuscript — Trost Outdoors
10. The Story of the Archimedes Palimpsest to 2000 (Part 1/3) — William and Henry Noel (The Golden Meteor)
11. Preserving the Past: The Book Hunters’ Legacy I SLICE HISTORY | FULL DOCUMENTARY — SLICE History
12. The Archimedes Palimpsest — GoogleTalksArchive
13. The Story of the Archimedes Palimpsest to 2000 (Part 2/3) — William and Henry Noel (The Golden Meteor)
14. Uncovering the Archimedes Palimpsest | Will Noel | TEDxMidAtlantic — TEDx Talks