The remains of Richard III have been positively identified via DNA and radiocarbon analysis. Dug up several months ago beneath a city parking lot in Leicester, England, the skeleton shows a young thirty-ish man, who died around the same time (more than 500 years ago) as said reviled and ruthless monarch, with wounds corresponding to stories of his brutal death on August 22, 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth Field - which some associate with the end of the Middle Ages. The skeleton also shows a man with the same form of scoliosis represented in Shakespeare's play - that is, a character with a pronouncedly raised right shoulder. Now it remains to be seen where the king shall be finally laid to rest.*Photo credit/wikipedia/"Cover of the 1594 quarto of The True Tragedy of Richard III, which was "printed by Thomas Creede and ... to be sold by William Barley, at his shop in Newgate Market."
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