On Monday 4 February the results of tests on a skeleton found beneath a Leicester carpark were announced to a global media audience. Lead archaeologist Richard Buckley stated ‘our academic conclusion, beyond reasonable doubt, is that the individual exhumed at Grey Friars in September 2012 is indeed Richard III, the last Plantagenet king of England.’
In this exciting issue, Current Archaeology looks at what this momentous announcement tells us about Richard, and why the Leicester team are so confident they have got their man.
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