SOURCE: Reuters
3-24-16
tags: Shakespeare
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3-24-16
Radar scan of Shakespeare's grave confirms skull apparently missing
Breaking Newstags: Shakespeare
Shakespeare's skull is likely missing from his grave, an archaeologist has concluded, confirming rumors which have swirled for years about grave-robbers and adding to the mystery surrounding the Bard's remains.
Four hundred years after his death and burial at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon, central England, researchers were allowed to scan the grave of England's greatest playwright with ground-penetrating radar.
But in the area under the church floor where the Bard's skull was expected to be, they found signs of interference.
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