Digital reconstruction of the face of Richard III

After the reconstruction of his face, the king appears with a slightly curved nose and a protruding chin, an image similar to the portraits of Richard that were created after his death.

The skeleton was brought to light last September by a team of archaeologists from the University of Leicester, after an excavation that took place at the site where the Greifrairs chapel once stood, where Richard was buried – today the same area houses the parking lot of a social service.

The DNA tests with a sample taken from a distant descendant of the ancestor confirmed the scientists' estimates, that is, that it was the bones of Richard III’.

King Richard III, also known as "the hunchback" because he suffered from severe scoliosis, was immortalized by Shakespeare's play of the same name and the famous cry "my kingdom for a horse."

From the first moment scientists claimed that the skeleton found in Leicester dates to the 15th century and matches the «bodily anomaly» observed in skeletons of people who died during battle.

Richard III ’ was crowned king of England in July 1483 at Westminster Abbey and was killed on 22 August 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth, during the civil war between the House of Lancaster and the House of York (known also as the «War of the Roses»).