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| Subject: As it should be: UK's archaeologists reveal brutal death of Richard III Tue Feb 05, 2013 3:17 am | |
| Not just the identity of the man in the car park with the twisted spine, but the appalling last moments and humiliating treatment of the naked body of Richard III in the hours after his death have been revealed at an extraordinary press conference at Leicester University.
He lived in very violent times, and these deaths would not have been pretty or quick.
There were cheers when Richard Buckley, lead archaeologist on the hunt for the king's body, finally announced that the university team was convinced "beyond reasonable doubt" that it had found the last Plantagenet king, bent by scoliosis of the spine, and twisted further to fit into a hastily dug hole in Grey Friars church, which was slightly too small to hold his body.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/gasps-as-archaeologists-reveal-brutal-death-of-richard-iii-20130205-2dv24.html#ixzz2K0is3X5x
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