A team of British and Canadian archeologists has released the
first image of a five-century-old human skull that was dug up
last year from a medieval burial site in England and which may
be declared - within hours on Monday, at a highly anticipated
news conference at the University of Leicester - to have
belonged to the infamous 15th century monarch King Richard III.
The skull, described as "fragile" but in "good condition," has
been exhaustively probed by scientists since it was exhumed last
summer along with the rest of the remains of an individual
buried in a churchyard near the site of the 1485 Battle of
Bosworth Field. Though the precise location of Richard III's
burial site was lost over time, it's long been believed that he
was interred at the Greyfri-ars church in the Midlands city of
Leicester after he was killed during the violent uprising that
ended the Plantagenet dynasty and placed his Tudor rival - King
Henry VII - on the English throne. Significantly, the skeleton
dug up at the suspected burial