It's official: the human remains found under a parking lot in Leicester, England, belong to Richard III. That's the word from University of Leicester archaeologists, who on Feb. 4 said that DNA evidence, radiocarbon dating, and
LEICESTER, England รข€" Just days after the yellowed bones found in a municipal parking lot here were declared to be those of King Richard III, a less-than-seemly tug of war has broken out between the cities of Leicester and York to claim the remains.
On Monday, confirming what many historians and archaeologists had suspected, a team of experts at the University of Leicester concluded on the basis of DNA and other evidence that the skeletal remains were those of King Richard III, for centuries the
The figure that has actually provoked the worldwide press coverage is not the historical Richard III but, rather, the fantastic villain that Shakespeare fashioned from Thomas More's slanders and unleashed in the early
Pacino called it "Looking for Richard." Maybe he was looking in the wrong place. Who would've guessed that the real Richard III would be found under a parking lot in central England? The discovery of the 15th-century king's remains this week in the
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