[SunkenCiv]

The letters were written by Ferdinand of Aragon, who was the first king of what became modern-day Spain. [© Radio Television Espanola]

[mairdie]

This is exciting. Thank you.

[dfwgator]

[BenLurkin]

“Espere amigos, neccista tu beber sus Owal-teen”

[yarddog]

The Spartans had a system of wrapping a message around a rod so that it showed letters exposed by certain sections. The recipient would have an identical one.

It was supposed to be pretty good but it doesn’t sound very sophisticated to me.

[Songcraft]

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.

[TigersEye]

Tome mas Ovaltino!

[lizma2]

The International Spy Museum has exhibition on Queen Elizabeth I’s spy ring.

Her main spy guy when sending her correspondence from abroad would sign them “007”.

[bunkerhill7]

The brains in Spain fall mainly on the reign.

[reed13k]

Always felt the best code was two copies of the same large random book using the pages, lines, and letters. I’m sure that with all the digital scans and crunching power now that this isn’t as good as it once would have been though.

[Ciexyz]

BTW, Ferdinand and Isabella were the parents of Catherine of Aragon, tragic first queen of Henry the Eighth.

[wildbill]

Sounds like a highly complicated code. Turn these intelligence guys loose on the code in the Money Pit.

[yarddog]

Solving language puzzles has always been something that I marvel at. Some people seem to have almost supernatural abilities in that area where others like me are poor.

I think I can do as well as the average contestant on Jeopardy but would not do well at Wheel of Fortune.

Yet a lot of ancient writings still have the experts stumped. For example some of the older Minoan Linear script has not been deciphered although they have done a bit on it lately.

[Monkey Face]

One of my ancestors! No wonder I’m so clever! LOL!

‘Face

[Stentor]

“Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels—bring home for Emma.”