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A trio of codebreakers has found and deciphered a treasure trove of lost letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots. The 57 secret letters, from Mary Stuart to the French ambassador to England between ...

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King Charles V, the Roman Emperor and King of Spain. King Charles V, the Roman Emperor and King of Spain, was one of the most powerful rulers of the 16th century. During his more than 40-year reign, ...

A trio of codebreakers has found and deciphered a treasure trove of lost letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots. A trio of codebreakers has found and deciphered a treasure trove of lost letters ...

For years, researchers who visited the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) passed over a collection of encoded letters. Someone had misdated the letters as originating from the 1520s and mistakenly ...

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