Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The decoded letter written by Holy Roman Emperor King Charles VStanislas Library French scientists have decoded a letter written ...

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French scientists have decoded a letter signed in 1547 by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, the Stanislas Libary in Nancy, France, has announced. The secretly-coded letter has revealed the significant ...