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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who deciphered the world’s most mysterious 600-year old manuscript named ’Voynich Manuscript’?
A
Dr. Gerard Cheshire
B
David Adjaye
C
Sonia Boyce
D
Roger Zogolovitch
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Professor of Applied Linguistics in the University of Bedfordshire Stephen Bax has decoded the Voynich manuscript.

Detailed explanation-2: -Now, after three years of analysis, the German Egyptologist Rainer Hannig from the Roemer -und Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, believes he has cracked the code to translating the work, and found the manuscript’s language to be based on Hebrew.

Detailed explanation-3: -Written in Central Europe at the end of the 15th or during the 16th century, the origin, language, and date of the Voynich Manuscript-named after the Polish-American antiquarian bookseller, Wilfrid M. Voynich, who acquired it in 1912-are still being debated as vigorously as its puzzling drawings and undeciphered text.

Detailed explanation-4: -These similarities establish that Leonardo da Vinci is the author of this most mysterious manuscript, known as the Voynich Manuscript, a private diary he wrote during his youth to record his observations in the plants in his grandfather’s garden, herbal plants and recipes, human reproduction, astrology and astronomy.

Detailed explanation-5: -dThe Voynich Manuscript is an old document that no one can read because it is written in code in an unknown language.

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