LONDON – More than 500 years after his death in battle, scientists announced Monday that they had definitively identified a skeleton unearthed in northern England last summer as that of Richard III, the medieval king portrayed by Shakespeare as a homicidal tyrant who killed his two young nephews in order to ascend the throne.
Scientists Identify Remains As Those Of King Richard Iii
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
Mon, 02/04/2013 - 4:45am
Topics: england king richard iii science
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