By Drew C. Wilson
Havelock News

A self-described computer geek, Richard Rogers believes he has cracked a code that has eluded scholars and researchers for more than 500 years.

Mystery has always surrounded the Voynich Manuscript, located at Yale University.

The 240 vellum pages of the hand-written book are so fragile that curators refuse to allow it to be touched. The 6- by 9-inch book contains pictures of plants, nymphs, astrological diagrams and hundreds of lines of undecipherable text matching no known language.

Rogers said he believes the book is so secretive because the family used it to protect trade secrets.