A parking lot hid a king with 11 wounds. 🅿️ . . . In September 2012, archaeologists excavating Leicester’s former Grey Friars site found a skeleton beneath painted asphalt. The bones had severe scoliosis and injuries consistent with Richard III’s death in 1485. DNA evidence confirmed that England had parked cars over a missing king for centuries.
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