DIG. HIM. UP.

i am just thrilled by the story about some british scientists that found the remains of richard iii buried under a parking lot in england. he was known to have a physical deformity (shakespeare depicted him as a hunchback), and it looks like they were right. get a load of that skeleton!

The parking lot sat on the site of a small church in Leicester where Richard of Gloucester was buried in 1485. When the Church was demolished in the 16th century, the exact location was lost until August of last year, when excavators decided to dig up the lot; one of the few remaining open areas in the city. The bones were found almost immediately and caught the archeologists' eyes, thanks to a severe curvature of the spine. Richard was famously believed to have a physical deformity, a feature made legendary by William Shakespeare's play about him—which also painted Richard as a vile schemer, who murdered his brothers, seduced his enemy's widow, and even had two young children locked in the Tower of London (and later executed) in order to claim the throne. (via)

i'm also thrilled that this topic was covered by 2Pz favorite gawker-er, caity weaver.