{"id":2977,"date":"2014-09-16T18:23:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T23:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2014-09-16T18:30:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T23:30:18","slug":"what-really-killed-richard-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/what-really-killed-richard-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"What really killed Richard III?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2978\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/RichardIII_4skull.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2978\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2978\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/RichardIII_4skull.jpg\" alt=\"The skull of Richard III, discovered under a car park in 2012. New analysis of the monarch\u2019s remains provide details about which of his many injuries sustained in battle were responsible for his death. (Photo credit: The Lancet)\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The skull of Richard III, discovered under a car park in 2012. New analysis of the monarch\u2019s remains provide details about which of his many injuries sustained in battle were responsible for his death. (Photo credit: The Lancet)<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Modern forensic techniques provide a blow-by-blow account of the injuries sustained by England\u2019s Richard III over 500 years ago. The remains of the last English monarch to die in battle were discovered under a car park in 2012 and confirmed by DNA analysis in 2013. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The latest paper provides detailed analysis of the 11 wounds sustained by the body during the final battle, including 9 to the head which suggest that the king had removed or lost his helmet. Two of these cranial injuries were likely the fatal blows, while those sustained to the body could have happened after death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t6S0ku1R9nE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Video originally posted by\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\"><a class=\"g-hovercard yt-uix-sessionlink yt-user-name \" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0-vwPmp-nmu_Huza_nq0AA\" data-sessionlink=\"feature=watch&amp;ei=vcUYVPXHK9LN-AOY9IHIDw\" data-ytid=\"UC0-vwPmp-nmu_Huza_nq0AA\" data-name=\"watch\">TheLancetTV<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on YouTube.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(14)60804-7\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in <span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">The Lancet<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span>on\u00a0<strong>September 16, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sarah Hainsworth, University of Leicester, United Kingdom<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern forensic techniques provide a blow-by-blow account of the injuries sustained by England\u2019s Richard III over 500 years ago. The remains of the last English monarch to die in battle were discovered under a car park in 2012 and confirmed by DNA analysis in 2013. The latest paper provides detailed analysis of the 11 wounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2161,1812,1813],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-forensics","tag-history","tag-mystery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/RichardIII_4skull.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-M1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2983,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions\/2983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}