King Richard III: Solving a 500-year-old cold case

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In 1485, King Richard III of England was killed in battle and hastily buried in Leicester. But during the English Reformation, his remains were lost ... for five centuries, until a cross-disciplinary team from the University of Leicester set out to relocate them. In a delightfully detailed talk full of archaeology, forensic science, royal genealogy and the occasional history pun, geneticist Dr. Turi King tells the story of how the team found and identified the bones of the last of the Plantagenets.