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An international team of codebreakers said Wednesday they have found and deciphered the long lost secret letters of 16th-century monarch Mary, Queen of Scots,

Experts said the 57 letters are the most significant discovery about Mary for 100 years.

A group of codebreakers have deciphered 57 "elaborately" coded letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, 436 years after her execution on Feb. 8, 1587.

The messages, written while she was imprisoned by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, were mistakenly listed as Italian texts in France’s national library.

These communications with the French ambassador to England were left untouched in the National Library of France. Their author was unknown, but a trio of researchers broke their code: The cursed Queen Mary of Scots who wrote them.

Very good... even before she is in captivity, she has very good connections with the outside world. she knows how to manipulate commissioners the weaknesses and strengths of various players. sometimes she tried to drive officials of the queen so that they will give up positive, sometimes she tries to recruit spies or she detects spies of the spy master, so this is interesting. this is about... what is especially remarkable here is not only from the famous, but we have seven of 50 letters, this i...

The letters were thought to be lost to history.

A trio of codebreakers has accidentally stumbled upon a lost series of secret letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots in the years before her execution in 1587. The incredible, seven-year-long correspondence was encrypted so successfully, the...

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