The phrase "attempted to decipher the" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing an effort to understand or interpret something that is difficult to comprehend, such as a text, code, or message.
Example: "The cryptographer attempted to decipher the ancient manuscript, hoping to uncover its hidden secrets."
Alternatives: "sought to interpret the" or "tried to understand the".
The volume La expresión americana (1957) includes lectures in which Lezama attempted to decipher the essence of Latin American reality.
The film follows Turing's work as he attempted to decipher the Germans' Enigma codes – as well as the friction between him and his superiors like Denniston.
Her face was trying to express bewilderment, and perhaps there was even amusement tucked into the smoothened furrows, what once would have been a charming squint as she attempted to decipher the mystery of his feelings.
The day that Pearson, a company that designs assessments, announced that it was changing an exam used by many New York City private schools, another test prep company attempted to decipher the coming changes on its blog: word reasoning and picture comprehension were out, bug search and animal coding were in.
In the present study, we attempted to decipher the detail mechanism of its transcription regulation.
Ritter et al. (2005) reviewed some of the large fault systems mentioned above (namely AvF, WF and SAF), compared their electrical properties, and proposed some Earth models that attempted to decipher the electrical information in a geological sense.
In this essay, Mr. Guha reproduces many letters and comments from right-wing Hindus as he attempts to decipher the anatomy of a right-wing Hindu in cyberspace.
The message and the bottle will be on display at Hamburg's maritime museum until the beginning of May after which experts will attempt to decipher the rest of the text.
In a cleverly crafted piece in Open magazine titled "The Cult of NaMo," Hartosh Singh Bal, who has been critical of Mr. Modi's governance, attempts to decipher the Modi phenomenon.
But a decade ago, the indefatigable Voynich expert René Zandbergen (on whose research I've drawn heavily here) was browsing a set of archives from the seventeenth century when he stumbled across a letter that identified the manuscript's next owner: Georg Baresch, an alchemist in Prague in the first half of the seventeenth century, who had spent twenty years attempting to decipher the script.
Last year, a friend and I spent two hours there, attempting to decipher the directions in a gazetteer of rock gravestones as night fell, and employing the help of a friendly guy in a Humvee, who had never heard of Parsons, but seemed fascinated by these two English boys, trying desperately to locate him.
