Why is the Voynich Manuscript Still Undeciphered ?

[Mark Knowles]

I think one reason the Voynich is undeciphered is that there is too little specialisation going on. If people developed specialisms in certain areas then collectively we would have much more insight into the manuscript. Instead we seem to have many people covering the same ground as other researchers. There seems a reluctance amongst most researchers to specialise. However there are clearly some researchers who specialise in specific areas. There is so much scope for specialisation as the Voynich is a very long document with so many aspects to it and research in any one area could be key to the manuscript as a whole.