INQUIRER.net: Richard III’s car park: An unlikely place for a king

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Richard III's car park: An unlikely place for a king Feb 5th 2013, 03:10 LEICESTER, United Kingdom—Graffiti adorns the painted green wooden gates to the windswept car park in Leicester, the gray concrete overlooked by a local authority building badly in need of redecoration.   It is not the most auspicious place to find a king of England.   But researchers at the University of Leicester on Monday confirmed that a skeleton dug up from a municipal car park in the central English city was indeed Richard III, who died in battle in 1485.   "It's really weird to know that we've been parking on a king," said youth worker Maxine Gregory, as she surveyed the flapping white plastic tent erected over the site outside her office. ... Keep on reading: Richard III’s car park: An unlikely place for a king Media files: car-park.jpg (image/jpeg)

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