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Back in 2006, I reasoned (in The Curse of the Voynich) that if the nine-rosette page’s circular city with a castle at the top… …represented Milan (one of only three cities renowned for their circular shape), then the presence of swallowtail merlons on the drawing implied it must have been drawn after 1450, when the … Read More →http://ciphermysteries.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2017/04/voynich-castle-with-swallowtail-merlons.jpg