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A parking lot hid a king with 11 wounds. 🅿️
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Creepy DiscoveriesAug 16, 2026

A parking lot hid a king with 11 wounds. 🅿️

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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Nature Communications, 2014, 'Identification of the remains of King Richard III', doi:10.1038/ncomms6631
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