History and Archaeology

[ali888]

It's been confirmed. The remains found buried under a carpark in Leicester last year are those of King Richard the Third. He was the last Plantagenet king of England and the last king to be killed in battle, at Bosworth in 1485. An amazing discovery.

Comments

[jayb111]

Even without the DNA I think it was fairly conclusive.

The things that's struck me is the degree of curvature of the spine.

[ali888]

Fairly conclusive yes but the DNA clinched it. I was amazed to find that they'd found a second source to check against.

[corbyinoz]

Can you imagine it,
I'm the last Plantagenet...

I was absolutely thrilled when I saw that on the news. You know there's a cold case team out there going, "Finally!"

[ali888]

Have you seen the facial reconstruction?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-21328380

[corbyinoz]

Wow. And how interesting that they got most of it without recourse to the portraits.

[ali888]

Yes and it bears a good resemblance to some of those portraits. The more accurate ones at any rate.

[betacandy]

That is so cool! And I got a bonus laugh from the CNN article because one commenter said, "His teeth look better than some living Brits!" and another responded,
"As a Brit, I will never, ever tire of this joke. It will always be extremely creative, fresh and very, very funny!"

[ali888]

Lol.