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King Richard III's remains important to some, but eye-roll inducing to others

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King Richard III's remains important to some, but eye-roll inducing to others

Richard III is most famous for the Shakespeare play of the same name, which was written a century after his death. This English king reigned for just over two years, but his body was buried without record of its exact location.

Behold the face of Richard III. A model of the visage of the last of England's Plantagenet rulers has been unveiled in London, just 24 hours after mitochondrial DNA testing revealed that human remains discovered beneath a

On Bosworth Field he lost his life, England's most infamous monarch, the supposed killer of princes. His body was taken from the battle and rushed by monks, the Red Cross of the

On Monday, confirming what many historians and archaeologists had suspected, a team of experts at the University of Leicester concluded on the basis of DNA and other evidence that the skeletal remains were those of King Richard III, for centuries the

Richard III is most famous for the Shakespeare play of the same name, which was written a century after his death. This English king reigned for just over two years, but his body was buried without record of its exact location.

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