Scientists identify remains as those of King Richard III
Monday, February 4, 2013 - 13:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
LONDON -- More than 500 years after his death in battle, scientists announced Monday that they had definitively identified a skeleton unearthed in northern England last summer as that of Richard III, the medieval king portrayed by William Shakespeare as a homicidal tyrant who killed his two young nephews in order to ascend the throne.