An interactive model of King Richard III’s grave,gives an archaeologist’s-eye view of the skeleton of one of England’s most vilified monarchsAt last, an archaeological dig you can explore from your sofa: Leicester university beget launched an interactive digital reconstruction of the hastily-dug grave and the distorted skeleton of one of England’s most vilified monarchs.
King Richard III claimed the throne of England in June 1483. By 22 August 1485, and at just 32 years of age,he lay dead on a battlefield at Bosworth, victim of multiple injuries, and living on only as the notorious Richard Crookback in Shakespeare’s occupy on the Wars of the Roses. And then in 2012,archaeologists found his body under a Leicester city council car park, known to be built over a site once occupied by Greyfriars Priory.
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Source: theguardian.com