Nhận biết (M1)

The Voynich manuscript, a handwritten book dating to the early fifteenth century, is written in a script that has never been deciphered. Its pages are filled with illustrations of unfamiliar plants, astronomical diagrams, and human figures. Despite more than a century of effort by professional cryptographers and amateur enthusiasts alike, no one has determined whether its text encodes a real language, an invented one, or nothing meaningful at all.

According to the text, which of the following is true of the Voynich manuscript?

• A.

  It was written in the early fifteenth century in a script that remains undeciphered.

• B.

  It has been shown to encode a previously unknown natural language.

• C.

  Its illustrations have enabled scholars to reconstruct portions of its text.

• D.

  It was decoded by amateur enthusiasts after professional cryptographers had failed.