Saturday, October 18, 2014

Royal Bones: Discovering the Diet of a King - Angela Lamb

King Richard III died over 500 years ago, killed in battle, signaling an end of his family's rule, and was given a burial incongruous with the way the king lived. His body was recovered underneath a parking lot in 2012, and subsequent analysis on his bones revealed that he certainly had tastes fit for a king. Angela Lamb explain how we know that King Richard III subsisted on plenty of boar, fish, venison and, of course, wine from analyzing his bones.

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