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, one of the most argued-over figures in British history.
Codebreakers find long-lost secret letters of Scottish queen beheaded in 1587:"Like uncovering buried treasure"An international team of codebreakers said Wednesday they have found and deciphered the long-lost secret letters of 16th-century monarchThe long-rumored missing letters, which were found mislabeled in the digital archive of a French library, were hailed by excited historians as the most significant discovery about the Scottish queen in a century.
They are members of the DECRYPT project, an international, cross-disciplinary team scouring the world's archives to find coded historical documents to decipher. "We were expecting Italian because that is what the catalogue said, but then we started to see some French words - 'ma liberté' - and sentences no-one would write if they were free," he said.
Some historians believe it was Walsingham who later"entrapped" Mary in 1586 into supporting the foiled Babington Plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I, Lasry said. Lasry said he could not help but feel empathy for the queen"because it's a tragedy -- you know she's going to be executed."Historians praised both the code breaking and historical research of the trio, expressing keenness to get stuck into the letters.
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