Mysterious Manuscript

Just having my daily peruse of the news, and I came across this most interesting article.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22975809

Its about a very old book that's been found. It features diagrams of plants that are not known to exist, diagrams relating to astronomy, and pictures of naked ladies.

It is written in a language that nobody has been able to identify or interpret, but complex analysis shows that the writing has linguistic structure making it unlikely that its just gibberish.

This sort of thing fascinates me. Science usually cracks most mysteries, but I'm also reminded of lots of folklore that I've read of, where regardless of culture, there is almost always some mention of a reality just outside of ours that we're not given full sight of.

I do like this quote though:

 

it is the kind of manuscript that you would find in "the name of the rose"...