Uncover the Secrets of Mary Queen of Scots' Hidden Ciphers 🕵️‍♂️

An international team of codebreakers consisting of George Lasry, Norbert Biermann, and Satoshi Tomokiyo has recently made a startling discovery: 50 lost ciphered letters from Mary, Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart).

Originally thought to be related to Italian matters, the letters were painstakingly decrypted by Dr. Lasry and his team. Gradually they discovered signs that the content of the letters was unmistakably related to Mary's time in captivity. The letters are a treasure trove for historians and help to fill in gaps of Mary's life.

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LINKS

The paper: Deciphering Mary Stuart’s lost letters from 1578-1584: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01611194.2022.2160677
Enciphered letters at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF): https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9059908w/f56.item
DECRYPT Project: https://de-crypt.org/
Cryptiana: http://cryptiana.web.fc2.com/code/crypto.htm

CREDITS

Oakvale of Albion - Softly
Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/oakvale-of-albion/softly

Images:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:France,_Paris,_Biblioth%C3%A8que_nationale_de_France,_site_Richelieu,_salle_ovale.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:YoungMaryStuart.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mary_Queen_of_Scots_with_her_husband_Henry_Stuart_Lord_Darnley,_engraved_by_Renold_Elstracke_in_1603.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mary_Stuart_cell.jpg
https://archive.org/details/lettresinstruct08marygoog/page/n8/mode/2up
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mary-cipher-code.jpg
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q599082
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I#/media/File:Darnley_stage_3.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wilson_(rhetorician)#/media/File:AmbassadorThomasWilson.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dudley,_1st_Earl_of_Leicester
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Walsingham#/media/File:Sir_Francis_Walsingham_by_John_De_Critz_the_Elder.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I#/media/File:Mary_Stuart_James.jpg
The rest of the graphics in Lasry’s presentation are created by Lasry/Biermann/Tomokiyo.

Thanks to Klaus Schmeh for the clip of Dr. Lasry at the 2017 European Historic Ciphers Colloquium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBfcZlK0xc8