Feature Anthropology

Year in Review: Slain king’s bones dug up

Richard III’s skeleton reveals fatal wounds

BROKEN BONES  King Richard III’s bones show that severe scoliosis curved his spine. Of the 10 wounds found on his remains, either of two on his skull could have been fatal.

Univ. of Leicester

By Rachel Ehrenberg

- More than 2 years ago

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It was reported 528 years late, but the top news from 1485 seems to be that King Richard III may have been killed by a blade thrust upward into his skull or an axe-whack to the back of his head.