Significant progress in solving the riddles of the Voynich manuscript has apparently been made—and the theory is that it's from New Spain and written in a forgotten Mesoamerican language or dialect. In the past, people have argued that the botany depicted in the manuscript was too poorly-done and clearly depicted the non-existent—but lo and behold, many of the plants depicted match items in the Codex Osuna from the 1560s. So much for eurocentrism!

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And here we were assuming that Cortez just burned books full of hieroglyphs.

Any bets on language family?