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Discovering Richard IIISection 2
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Archaeologists at Work
• In summer 2012 archaeologists from Leicester University excavated the site of Greyfriars church.
• They looked at the choir area where important burials took place.
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Finding a Skeleton• They found a
skeleton with a curved spine.
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Finding a Skeleton• The curve of the spine would have made this
man look as if one shoulder was higher than
the other.
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Finding a Skeleton• The skeleton had
suffered a number of wounds including a heavy blow to the back of the skull from a sharp blade …..
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Finding a Skeleton• … like the poll-axe
or halberd this knight is holding.
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Testing DNA
DNA tests were carried out using
•teeth and a leg bone from the skeleton
•and DNA from a descendant of Richard
III’s sister
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It is Richard III
The DNA Tests Reveal …
His body has been identified after being lost for nearly 500
years.
but …
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Which questions
does Richard III’s skeleton
answer?