For some, King Richard III's resting place raises a human rights issue

Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 19:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Distant relatives of England's King Richard III have escalated their fight to have the much-maligned monarch's mortal remains buried in York rather than Leicester, claiming that the matter was a human rights issue.The late king's skeleton was discovered beneath a parking lot near the present-day Leicester Cathedral last year, and identified "beyond reasonable doubt" through DNA analysis and other ...

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