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Bone chemistry reveals royal lifestyle of Richard III

• curtis 12y ago
  From the article: > Isotope analysis of bone and tooth material from King Richard III has revealed previously unknown details of his early life and the change in his diet when he became King two years and two months before he was killed at the Battle of Bosworth.
• PeterWhittaker 12y ago
  Fascinating how the different times to renew bones (15 years for the femur, ~3 for a rib) provide info about average diet during those times. Good read.
• theoh 12y ago
  On a related point, if you google '"richard III" "psychotic"' you get a huge number of hits, all confusing psychosis with psychopathy (many from descriptions of productions of Shakespeare's play). Really depressing and bad news that people in the literary/cultural/historical world can't keep this distinction straight, if they ever even noticed it.