SOURCE: Reuters
3-26-13
tags: archaeology, England, Richard III, Shakespeare, human remains
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3-26-13
Battle rages over bones of England's Richard III
Breaking Newstags: archaeology, England, Richard III, Shakespeare, human remains
(Reuters) - King Richard III is at the center of a new fight over the location of his final resting place, just weeks after the remains of the last English king to die in battle were found underneath a council car park.
Archaeologists announced one of the most remarkable finds in recent English history last month when they confirmed the discovery of the body of Richard, who was slain at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, during excavations in Leicester.
The discovery generated massive interest internationally as the monarch was famously cast by William Shakespeare as a deformed tyrant who murdered his two nephews, known as the princes, in the Tower of London....
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