The skull of Richard III.

The figure that has actually provoked the worldwide press coverage is not the historical Richard III but, rather, the fantastic villain that Shakespeare fashioned from Thomas More's slanders and unleashed in the early

Mr. Murdoch said that he plans to put Richard III on display at the News Corporation headquarters in New York, “where he will serve as an inspiration to all our employees when I'm not there.” But Mr. Murdoch's shocking purchase of Richard's bones has

Given the historic, archaeological and forensic evidence, they say it is "beyond reasonable doubt" that the skeleton, with its markedly crooked spine, is that of Richard III (see "Doubts remain that the Leicester body is Richard III"). It is gratifying

LONDON (AP) — Two English cities are doing battle over the bones of King Richard III. This week scientists announced that a skeleton found under a parking lot in the city of Leicester belonged to the king, who died in 1485. Officials say he will now

On Monday, confirming what many historians and archaeologists had suspected, a team of experts at the University of Leicester concluded on the basis of DNA and other evidence that the skeletal remains were those of King Richard III, for centuries the