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Mary wrote the letter in French around 2 a.m. on the day of her execution. National Library of Scotland On the morning of February 8, 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots, knelt at an execution block in the ...

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 ...

Secret, coded letters penned by Mary Queen of Scots while she was imprisoned in England by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I have been uncovered by a multidisciplinary team of international codebreakers.

Over 50 coded letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots, have been deciphered, revealing her private thoughts, according to a new study. Photo from the journal Cryptologia Over 50 encrypted letters ...

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Communications by important people over the past thousands of years have been regularly encrypted, making the breaking of this encryption both an essential and also a fascinating historical field. One ...

Emily Hay has previously received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The last letter of Mary, Queen of Scots goes on display in 2026 for the first time in almost a decade.

A mysterious sheaf of coded letters tucked away in the National Library of France (BnF) has turned out to be never-before-seen correspondence from Mary, Queen of Scots. Also known as Mary Stuart, the ...

The deposed monarch wrote the 57 encrypted messages during her captivity in England Cool Finds Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History All but seven of the letters were previously ...