King Richard III’s skeleton was found under a Leicester, England, parking lot.
When I read this story the first time, I was amazed. For all the importance placed on royalty in England, how could this happen with an English king? I mean, how do you misplace a king?
The skeleton was discovered in August 2012 when the ground was excavated in a city council parking lot.
The bones were taken to the University of Leicester where they underwent DNA testing to confirm that they matched that of members of the Royal Family. With the confirmation, the bones will be reinterred in the Leicester Cathedral.
The bones were carbon dated to between 1455 and 1540 and were from a man in his late 20s or early 30s. The skeleton also had 10 injuries with two that were potentially fatal.
Richard III was 32 years old when he was killed in battle at Bosworth. He reigned for 26 months and was the last English king to die in battle. He was given a hurried burial beneath the church of Greyfriars in the centre of Leicester.
Another identifying clue was that Richard II was sometimes shown as being deformed and the skeleton’s spine is badly curved with scoliosis.
Here’s an article about the find.
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