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.
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Mon, 02/04/2013 - 4:45am
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- What did King Richard III sound like? State-of-the-art technology re-creates voice of medieval monarch
Unlike the upper-class tones of Richard's modern successors, the re-created king's voice has a more common and earthy twang.
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LONDON — Britain’s King Richard III was immortalized with ... county in northern England known for its distinctive dialect. Richard made global headlines 12 years ago when his skeletal remains were ...
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A voice for King Richard III has been created using state-of-the-art technology, giving him a Yorkshire accent.A digital avatar of the medieval king went on display in front of history buffs at York ...
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