Comments on: Liveblogging the Richard III announcement http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/23196 History fetish? What history fetish? Sat, 18 May 2013 12:55:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: livius drusus http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/23196/comment-page-1#comment-684908 livius drusus Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:10:56 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=23196#comment-684908 Thank you! It has a whole incognito roman numeral thing going on that entertains me. :giggle: Thank you! It has a whole incognito roman numeral thing going on that entertains me. :giggle:

]]> By: livius drusus http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/23196/comment-page-1#comment-684906 livius drusus Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:09:52 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=23196#comment-684906 It sounds like your cat has his or her priorities straight. :giggle: It sounds like your cat has his or her priorities straight. :giggle:

]]> By: livius drusus http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/23196/comment-page-1#comment-684903 livius drusus Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:09:14 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=23196#comment-684903 Thank you for following. :thanks: Looks like <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/alfred-the-great-may-be-next-to-be-dug-up/story-fnb64oi6-1226570817988" rel="nofollow">Alfred the Great</a> may be next. Thank you for following. :thanks: Looks like Alfred the Great may be next.

]]> By: livius drusus http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/23196/comment-page-1#comment-684883 livius drusus Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:05:05 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=23196#comment-684883 Yessir they are. The whole city of Leicester is dancing on air. Yessir they are. The whole city of Leicester is dancing on air.

]]> By: livius drusus http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/23196/comment-page-1#comment-684880 livius drusus Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:04:25 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=23196#comment-684880 It was too exciting to sleep through. I could barely keep myself from calling my mom and waking her up. :lol: It was too exciting to sleep through. I could barely keep myself from calling my mom and waking her up. :lol:

]]> By: livius drusus http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/23196/comment-page-1#comment-684869 livius drusus Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:01:46 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=23196#comment-684869 It really was. And to think my chihuahua-tremble excitement can't have been a patch on the excitement the archaeologists experienced finding the remains. It really was. And to think my chihuahua-tremble excitement can’t have been a patch on the excitement the archaeologists experienced finding the remains.

]]> By: livius drusus http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/23196/comment-page-1#comment-684865 livius drusus Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:59:40 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=23196#comment-684865 Got it, thank you. :thanks: Got it, thank you. :thanks:

]]> By: livius drusus http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/23196/comment-page-1#comment-684863 livius drusus Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:58:46 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=23196#comment-684863 Thank you, and I finally did! :lol: Thank you, and I finally did! :lol:

]]> By: livius drusus http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/23196/comment-page-1#comment-684702 livius drusus Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:50:27 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=23196#comment-684702 Exactly. He could have commissioned it, had a hand in it, looked the other way or not been involved at all. There's no question he sent them to the Tower, though, so if they turned out to have died of starvation, for instance, their deaths would certainly be on his head. Exactly. He could have commissioned it, had a hand in it, looked the other way or not been involved at all. There’s no question he sent them to the Tower, though, so if they turned out to have died of starvation, for instance, their deaths would certainly be on his head.

]]> By: livius drusus http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/23196/comment-page-1#comment-684700 livius drusus Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:49:10 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=23196#comment-684700 I read a chatlog on the Channel 4 website where someone asked if this discovery might inspire a re-investigation of the two boys in Westminster Abbey. Lynn Foxhall said it was premature at this point, but perhaps if they were able to extract and analyze the skeleton's Y chromosome DNA, that would give them the impetus to compare it against that of the potential princes. I think they should exhume the bones Y-DNA or no. The last time they were examined was 1933. The science is so far beyond that now. I read a chatlog on the Channel 4 website where someone asked if this discovery might inspire a re-investigation of the two boys in Westminster Abbey. Lynn Foxhall said it was premature at this point, but perhaps if they were able to extract and analyze the skeleton’s Y chromosome DNA, that would give them the impetus to compare it against that of the potential princes.

I think they should exhume the bones Y-DNA or no. The last time they were examined was 1933. The science is so far beyond that now.

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