Monday, February 4, 2013

"My kingdom for a horse!"

Bones Under Parking Lot Belonged to Richard III



LEICESTER, England — In one of Britain’s most dramatic modern archaeological finds, researchers here announced on Monday that skeletal remains found under a parking lot in this English Midlands city were those of King Richard III, for centuries the most widely reviled of English monarchs, paving the way for a possible reassessment of his brief but violent reign.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/world/europe/richard-the-third-bones.html?hp