CEJ #3

Hazel

2-4-13

Scientists discover the remains of King Richard III

Chu, Henry

Los Angeles Times

February Fourth 2013

Science

http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-richard-iii-remains-20130204,0,7667709.story

More than five hundred years ago King Richard III died in battle, Monday Scientist Identified a skeleton found in Northern England for sure as King Richard III. William Shakespeare portrayed king Richard III as a "homicidal tyrant" who killed his two young nephews in order to get the throne. The DNA from the skeleton found beneath the ruins of an old church match a living descendant of the monarchs sister, The bones were originally found last September when a team of archaeologist from a college about 100 miles northwest from London came across the bones after digging less than a month in a parking lot in the city of Leicester, one of the few places not built over in the crowded city center, they came across King Richard III's grave. the skeleton, nearly intact had obvious trauma to the head.

I think that it is really interesting about how they could tell that the skeleton was King Richard III's skeleton because they tested the DNA of someone who wasn't too closely related to him. I also think that it is cool how they knew where to look and also how they could tell when the skeleton is hundreds of years old. I want to know how exactly he died when he was in battle, because he had trauma to the head and I also want to know if what shakespeare said about him was true, if it was I think that it is really cruel that he killed two of his nephews just to get the throne.