Despite what your teachers may tell your, our knowledge of history is incomplete at best. The truth is that large portions of humanity’s story are missing entirely and that’s what makes something like the Voynich manuscript so incredibly fascinating.

This mysterious text, believed to have been written some time in the early 15th century, is written in a language no one has ever seen before or since. In addition, it’s full of illustrations of plants and animals that have never existed, at least not according to any known scientific records.

Is it a remnant from a lost chapter of our history, a record from another world, or something more?