Ancient Manuscripts That Should Never Have Been Opened

Chances are you've heard of The Voyage manuscript, the mysterious book that appears to be written in an unknown language that no one has

been

able to translate. It presents drawings of plants and animals that do not exist and no one knows who made it. I've made a video about it here, it's super famous, but it's not the only mysterious manuscript that has

been

found. Actually, there are many of them. I actually got a lot of comments on that Voyage video asking me to talk about some of them, but yeah, everywhere. Around the world we've found documents that challenge what we think we know about history, spark controversy, and sometimes just don't make sense, so today let's take a look at some of the most mysterious

ancient

manuscripts

ever found in my episode about the world . the strangest form of writing I talked about how we are in a kind of linguistic crisis.

I mean, nine languages ​​a year stop being spoken around the world. It's so bad that they predict that by 2080 we will be losing a language every two weeks and this. It's important because we lose ideas that are specific to cultures, when a language dies we lose records of time periods and people, we lose stories that were important to them at the time and could still

have

meaning in our lives today, and then there are Languages ​​that we find in our past and that we cannot understand, although we find them, their meaning is lost to us, but what could be even stranger is when we find

manuscripts

or documents and languages ​​that we do understand and where we can decipher the contains information , but that information is weird, weird, out of place or out of time, or done in a way that we can't decipher by people we don't know who are now some of these that I'm about to are still being studied, for which we may find out are not real at some point in the future, but some of them

have

been thoroughly studied and are super legit, which only raises more questions, so let's start our scavenger hunt.

In

ancient

Egypt, in 1868, an Egyptian mummy arrived at the Zagreb Museum in Croatia. It was of an ordinary woman, no one royal or a priest or anything like that, but the interesting thing was that it was wrapped in strips of linen with writing on it, which is no big deal, but it wasn't a hieroglyph. Egyptian, it was actually something unknown at the time, about 20 years later the museum officials sent the knocks to Vienna and there the Austrian Egyptologist Jacob CRA looked at them and I found out what the language was, it was actually Ausin, yes, strangely, For some reason, this mummy had been wrapped with strips of a Truscan linen book.

This was an incredible discovery, firstly because Truscan was not spoken in Egypt, it was an early type of Roman language, but no surviving examples of linen books in Truskin had been found either. I meant in truskin, not there, usually a linen book like this would have dissolved over time, but the climate of the area of ​​Egypt and the materials that were used to dry the mummy helped preserve it this was not just the first atesin linen text to be found completely intact but it was also the longest text ever found in truskin the book was originally a sheet of about 3.4M long before it was torn into strips to make bandages it contained 12 columns of text written in black and red ink and it is believed that around 60% of the original text is still there.

They also found papyrus from the Egyptian Book of the Dead wrapping the mummy's body, which could give us a clue as to who she was. so we found this linen, it's in truscan, we can read it, what was this really about? Well, basically, it was just a calendar for what rights and sacrifices had to be made throughout the year. There are certain gods mentioned as nethuns, which was a water in Truscan. God was related to the Roman god Neptune and some of the words and names in the text lead experts to believe that it was composed near the present-day Italian city of Perusia.

Now the linen itself dates back to the 4th century BC. C., but the writing is from much later, like the word January, which is used as the beginning of a ritual year, meaning that it was probably written between 200 and 150 BC. C., that is, whoever wrote this linen found that it was literally 3 centuries old and then wrote things on it and then it was broken down and used on a mummy. This linen has had quite the journey. To me, it's a big mystery, like who goes and finds 300-year-old antique linen and then writes on it. This doesn't even make sense, but then there's the obvious question. how this linen with a tresen writing got to Egypt, so the theory is, since the mummy was found in the city of Alexandria, which is a port city, it's a big commercial center, one theory is that she was basically wrapped in whatever material was available, which again, we're going to bury this person.

Come on, uh, let's get that book over there, let's just tear that book up and wrap it up, make a paper mache, yeah. that's one way to do it now, if that's the case then you would just have a truskin text there and there's no connection between that and the egyptian Book of the Dead that was there and there's really no big mystery as to how it would have gotten there Alexandria, like I said, was a port city, there was a lot of trade there and there was a lot of maritime trade that was done in the Mediterranean a long time ago, so that's a theory that they just found. the book and wrapped her in it because that was what was available.

Another theory is that she was actually of Truscan descent, so she was buried according to the customs of her ancestral and adopted cultures, but either way it is a book that was found wrapped around a mummy. and if that's not worthy of a place on a I-don't-know-what list of mysterious manuscripts Here's a thought instead of being a traitor, could Judas Scariote have been Jesus' best friend according to the controversial Gospel of Judas? That is exactly the situation written on papyrus and dating back to around the 2nd century AD, it tells the story of Jesus asking Judas to betray him so he can fulfill his prophecy and Rise To Heaven the Papyrus is actually what they call a codex that was translated from ancient Greek to the Coptic language around 300 AD.

It was discovered in the 1970s in a cave near Elmina in Egypt and simply passed through antiques dealers before eventually ending up in a safe deposit box on Long Island, New York, ending up in the hands of antiquities dealer Frieder Newberger. Chakos, who bought the manuscript, tried to sell it, was unable to sell it, and then sent it to the Meus Foundation for Ancient Art in Basil Switzerland in 2001. There the text was reconstructed and translated by Rudolph CER or Caser. It sure was. a 66-page manuscript that contained not only The Gospel of Judas but also the first Apocalypse of James, a letter from Peter to Philip and a fragment of a text called The Book of Alyes, okay, this came out hundreds of years later, clearly It was not. the real Judas, who was the author of this text, was probably written by a Gnostic.

By the way, a Gnostic is someone who believes that salvation is achieved through knowledge rather than faith. They also believe that the Creator of the world is not perfect, hence the Gospel. of Judas shows Judas as the favorite disciple of Jesus and in fact he would give secret messages to Judas that he did not tell the other disciples things like the creation of humans, angels and other celestial beings and the nature of the Universe. The text also includes conversations. between Judas and Jesus in the week before Passover, all of that is controversial, but its biggest controversy, by far, is the idea that Jesus actually asked Judas to betray him because he wanted that if someone betrayed him, he would want that it was his best friend instead of an enemy, this of course challenges the roots of Christianity.

Some scholars have even gone so far as to describe it as heretical fiction or forgery. It also offers a different understanding of God that you know in a perfect world would be fine, different points of view on everyone. We don't really live in that world, so yes, the veracity of this document is still under debate. It is obviously very old, but how accurate it is has not yet been determined. Another manuscript related to the Bible is the Kellum messet or the tretis. of the vessels that claims to reveal what happened to the Ark of the Covenant in The Treasures of King Solomon.

I mean, don't we know what happened to the Ark of the Covenant? I feel like I've seen it before. It lists items like 200,000 talents of pearls. 77 golden tablets from the walls of Eden 1,000 liars and 7,000 loot all of these items were hidden in different places before the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem and these places are intentionally dark but also somewhat specific, such as in a tower or in the spring of Zedekiah Professor James Deila of the University of San Andrés translated the text, but its age, authorship and origin are still uncertain. There are also two different versions of this.

The first version was included in Hebrew volumes composed between the 17th and 20th centuries. This version says that treasures are hidden around Babylon. between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, the other version appears on two ancient plaques and says that the treasures were stored in the Holy Land anyway. Dila believes that both are basically fiction based on different legends, as he told LiveScience in 2014. The writer relies on traditional Exodus methods from the Scriptures to deduce where the treasures might have been hidden, but I think the writer I was approaching the story as an entertaining piece of fiction, not as some sort of actual guide to finding the Treasures of the Lost Temple.

There are also some similarities. to the Copper Scroll, which is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls dating back more than 1900 years, for example, both texts refer to vessels and include lists of gold, so where do these documents say that the arch of the Alliance actually is? Well, of course, it's mysterious. uh, in its own dark way, the text says that the location will not be revealed until the day of the coming of the Messiah son of David is named. So if you're watching this and your name is David and you have a son, please sound off.

In the comments, let us know if his son is the Messiah because then we might find out where this thing is. In 1965, a team of looters unearthed some artifacts in a cave in Mexico and found things like a wooden mask and a knife. with a fist-shaped handle it sounds like something from James Bond billin they also found a manuscript but since they were looters they had trouble selling it because people didn't believe it was authentic it was an 11 page manuscript on bark paper that included images of death Pre-Columbian Gods, a calendar for tracking Venus in Mayan images and symbols, eventually found its way into the hands of a book collector named Hos Sans.

I think I say it well. Who exhibited it at the Groer Club in New York? This is how it got its name, Groer Codex. Now, when I first read it, I thought wow, that's amazing, and they found this in a dance club in New York, no, it's the Groer club, it's a book club, they have rare book exhibits and stuff like that. So it's not as interesting a story, it's not as out of place as it seems, but because it was found by Lutter and because it sort of found its way to a book club where it was on display and not quite, you know, in an academic.

In a sense, it was still considered inauthentic by many, but in 2016 it was officially determined to be genuine. A team of anthropologists, archaeologists and cultural experts examined the document closely, looking at things like its content, its physical structure and its style. They used everything. from ultraviolet imaging to x-rays and microscopic analysis, they even radiocarbon dated it to the 13th century, so it's legit. They were also able to demonstrate that the pigments and ink in the manuscript did not contain modern materials and that they were consistent with the pigments used in three other Maya Cotes - in fact the blue pigment found on one of the pages is from Indigo die and something called P gorita .

I think I'm saying right, it's a clay mineral that the Mayans used for their blue pigments and this material was only identified in 1964 and wasn't synthesized until the 1980s, so yeah, there's no way looters could have made it. that ink in the '60s. There are also images in the Forger's Codex in the '60s that they wouldn't have known like on a page, uh. There was an image of the Mountain God with a Clift in the center of his head containing labyrinth grains. Now that wouldn't mean anything except that in 1974 a similar image was found on a wall painting, so the forgers must have known about that wall. painting before forging a book with that image and there is no way they could have done that.

As for what is in the Groia Codex, it is believed to have information about the role of Venus in Mayan astronomy and religion. Also, his drawings are really twisted and, according to some. In the places I saw, it is today considered the oldest manuscript in North America. When we think of spells, enchantments and things like that, we think of witches and dark arts, it's kind of frowned upon, there's a reason for it.Sinister, you know, but there was a Time in the ancient world when you knew that incantations and spells were not frowned upon because everyone believed in magic and that's where the Coptic Manual of Ritual Power comes into play.

Also called Egyptian Manual of Ritual Power. Simply incredible. Name by the way. but it was only recently deciphered in 2014 by two Australian researchers, an antiques dealer sold it to Mcquary University in Australia in 1981 and yes, researchers looked at it and found that it is a manual of rituals and spells, some of the spells include. spells for love spells to cure black jaundice and instructions for When performing an exorcism in general, there are 20 pages of parchment offering 27 spells and various incantations and illustrations and at one time they may actually have been two documents that were combined into one more late.

Scholars aren't sure exactly where it was originally found, but they believe someone wrote it down in pre-Islamic Upper Egypt about 1,300 years ago. There are several references saying Jesus and the Setians in the manuscript. The Setians were religious groups that identified with Seth, who is the third son of Adam and Eve. The groups also identified with a God. being called bacoa uh this figure opens the Codex with these lines I thank you and I invoke you the bacoa the great who is very trustworthy the one who is Lord over the 40 and the nine kinds of snakes the translators think that The person who wrote this was not necessarily a priest, but perhaps a scholar who was writing this as a way to help people achieve their goals, such as, are there spells to help someone get better at business or get along with other people in some way?

In a way you could say that this was like the first self-help book but with magic and before we get to the last manuscript there are some honorable mentions that we want to mention, some other mysterious elements that are worth taking a look at on the Jamestown slate of the time colonial. It was found in an old well in Jamestown, Virginia, and has superimposed scratched inscriptions and drawings of a man dressed in a ruffled collar. The map of the lands of the pur rise is a document from 1513 showing mountains in south america that were unknown at the time in a det.

Ice-free Antarctica, although it has been covered in ice for 6,000 years. Easter Island has wooden tablets that contain indecipherable writing that runs from left to right and then from right to left when turned over and then there is the ugly disk that has 242 symbols. which show things like an arrow, a beehive, a cat, a tree and a tattooed head, which may be phonetic groups, but since there aren't many, they can't be deciphered if any sound interesting enough for their own video, let me Now, last but not least we know we have the book of Soyga and according to 16th century scholar and mystic John D, the book of SOA was actually transcribed by angels for Adam while he was in Eden, it was a medium called Edward Kelly who told him.

This U, although D was a man of science, was also interested in the occult, so of course it makes sense that the sorghum book was part of his library. It is a 200 page book written in Latin and appears to be about Renaissance magical practices and Beliefs. Now part of the book includes sections on astronomy, the identification of specific angels who summon demons, and of course magic, so he understood the Latin text , but he found the 36 pages of the book confusing because each page contains a square of 36 rows and 36 columns of seemingly random Latin letters that are a total of 46,656 characters.

D couldn't decode it and so he asked the medium Edward Kelly for answers and told him that only Archangel Michael could translate it or if anyone figured out how to translate that section. You would be cursed to die within two and a half years, so stay away from that now, the text itself posts some problems, such as some of the Latin words appearing written backwards for no apparent reason. In fact, the word SOA. It may actually be the reverse of agios, which is a Greek word meaning sacred or holy. The book was auctioned in 1608 after D's death and was then basically lost for about 400 years, but two copies were found in 1994, one in the British Library in London. and another at Oxford's Bodland Library, but then, in 2006, mathematician and cryptologist Jim Reeds discovered that the code

should

not go too far into In The Weeds, but each table is based on a six-letter magic word, this is the initial word and it is different.

On each page he discovered that the first 24 tables have names of constellations in the Zodiac, two tables for each sign and then there are seven tables with names of planes, four of natural elements and one of the figure of Magister or teacher, so even with the correct code. We still don't really know what it means, now one theory is that it is a representation of the universe. Oh, and remember that the curse, well, Jim Reeds is still alive, but again he only cracked the code, he didn't discover its meaning. So the SOA book is definitely old and it's definitely weird.

It has many mysteries around it, but perhaps we will discover its meaning as time goes by. So what do all these mysterious codes and manuscripts have in common? Outside of the fact that we just look, we're human, we love a good mystery, we love making sense of the world and, you know, figuring out patterns and all that, we're just wired that way, but it's something that I always wonder about every time. I come across these stories about mysterious ancient documents and things like that. How do we know it's not just people being creative? Because yes, we love a good mystery and we love solving Mysteries and all that, but we are also creative people we are artists the first thing we did was put art on the walls of the caves and stuff like that so how do we know that it's not just about that people be creative?

You know, we tend to treat everything that's written in the past as if it were some kind of pure document, but most of what we write today is fiction or some kind of creative thing, so who's to say they weren't Just making up stories back then like we do today, like I've joked before? that if people from the future applied the same logic to today that we attribute to the past, then they might find a Harry Potter book and think that we all have magical powers, so yeah, what if these manuscripts and codes were just people having fun?

The Book of Judas was a kind of fanfiction or alternative history exercise. I like to consider that, but there's also the other side of the coin, which is you know at that time the ability to write was very rare and the process of creating documents. It was so laborious, um, it was probably unlikely that people would have gone through all that just for a moment, but I think people do some crazy things in the spirit of being creative, so who knows either way, I find all this Just fascinating and I'm curious to see what else comes up.

These old documents may

never

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