‘It’s not like CSI’: the Science of the Search for Richard III

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Complexity of tests being performed on Grey Friars skeleton mean answers will not come overnight Search for King Richard III press portal: http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/media-centre/richard-iii DNA testing, environmental sampling and radiocarbon dating are some of the tests being undertaken to determine whether the skeleton found in Leicester was once Richard III - and there are also plans to do a facial reconstruction. Lead archaeologist Richard Buckley, of the University of Leicester̵...

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