New puzzle for war code breakers

[Champ]

Experts from Bletchley Park are trying to crack a 250-year-old code rumoured to point the way to the Holy Grail.
Specialists from the Buckinghamshire code-breaking centre hope to decipher words etched on a garden ornament at Shugborough in Staffordshire.

The Shepherd's Monument in the grounds of the stately home displays an inscription that has never been solved.

Second World War veterans using the celebrated Enigma machine are joining Bletchley's current team of experts.


'Unusual challenge'

The code breakers are at Shugborough, the ancestral home of the Earls of Lichfield, on Tuesday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/3703191.stm

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1. Why the hell would they use Enigma

Enigma is obsolete now and was 200 years in the future then

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. Yeah, it's an 'et in arcadia ego' mystery.

I wonder if they can do it.

[bhunt70]

3. I love this kinda stuff...thanks for the info.

[soothsayer]

4. Nobody's cracked the Etruscan language yet

I wonder if they can do this?