Codebreakers Find And Decipher Lost Letters Of Mary, Queen Of Scots
A group of codebreakers have deciphered 57 "elaborately" coded letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, 436 years after her execution on Feb. 8, 1587.
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A group of codebreakers have deciphered 57 "elaborately" coded letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, 436 years after her execution on Feb. 8, 1587.
CODEBREAKERS have cracked the secrets of Mary, Queen of Scots’s lost letters more than 430 years after she wrote them in captivity.
Cryptologists have cracked the code on a stack of encrypted letters, and discovered that they were penned by Mary, Queen of Scots.
Secret letters written by Mary Queen of Scots while she was imprisoned by Queen Elizabeth I have been cracked by a team of codebreakers. For centuries, the contents of the coded correspondence dating from 1578 to 1584 were believed to have been lost.
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.