The Voynich Manuscript: history’s greatest mysteries

To celebrate BBC History Magazine’s 20th birthday, we asked 20 experts to nominate a historical enigma that they’d dearly love to see solved – and all this week we are counting down the top five of our History’s Greatest Mysteries poll.

In today’s episode, historian Elma Brenner discusses the 500-year-old Voynich Manuscript, whose mysterious text has baffled some of the greatest code-breakers.