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Not Deciphering The Voynich Manuscript
The Piltdown man was the most successful artifactual hoax of all time. The relevant skull was a chimeric melange of orangutan and human bone fragments from several individuals “discovered” in England in 1912, and meant to represent a transitional form between apes and humans.
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Originally published by LessWrong on Oct 11, 2026.
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