[Article] Harvard physicist's take on the VMS

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Hieroglyphs are not a cypher, yet they were not readable until the Rosetta Stone was found. The goal is to find a Rosetta Stone.

Michael Ventris didn't find a Rosetta Stone to decipher Linear B.  He created his own.  But he had place names.  Place names are probably a lot more stable than plant names and I expect there were fewer of them.  The list of potential plant names might as well be infinite.  We would probably have better luck with plant parts or attributes than with plant names.  We know there are differences between "A" and "B".  Has anyone made a list of the words that are common on the plant pages but are rare on the non-plant pages?

Yes, I'm familiar with how Linear B was translated. Linear B was also translated with far less total text than Voynich. They had it (comparitively) easy though, Linear B is basically Greek with different symbols. It was cracked not with the names but because Alice Kober wrote all the different forms down on cigarett cartons and roots with different endings probably represented inflection. The place names were basically the final piece of the puzzle she had mostly assembled. 

Heiroglpyhs also required a Crib, even with the Rosetta stone, Pharaoh's names. 

I aslo wouldn't consider the names of the plants themselves to be useful cribs. I was speaking about the zodiac and cosmological diagrams. 

The broader point though, is your statement:

It took me a couple of years of Internet searching and the help of A.I. to identify it as Elephantopus tomentosus, a.k.a. Elephant's Foot, a.k.a. Devil's Grandmother.

The point was $20million dollars of openAI credits would find this in a few minutes, with millions and millions and millions (intentional triple word use there) left over. If there is anything out there to find, it would find it.