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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Codebreakers Find, Decipher Lost Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots

The deciphered letter of Mary, Queen of Scots, which codebreakers found mislabeled in the digital archive of a French library. Handout / LASRY/BIERMANN/TOMOKIYO/AFP

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.

The 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, AFP said.

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