We’ve got an idea of what he looked like thanks to a new 3-D reconstruction of his head, made after the discovery of his skull, along with the rest of his skeleton, under a parking lot in Leicester, ...

Can you psychoanalyze a man who's been dead for 528 years? University of Leicester psychologists have given it a shot. They've concluded that Richard III, whose remains were recently identified in ...

Modern ears will never hear the true voice of medieval English King Richard III, but a new look at the monarch's own notes suggests he may have had an accent not unlike today's residents of the United ...

A permanent exhibition showing a state-of-the-art avatar of King Richard III has opened in Leicester. The display, which ...

England’s infamous King Richard III hit the banquet circuit during the years leading up to his violent 1485 death, suggests a new analysis of his recently recovered remains. Details of Richard’s ...

A virtual 3-D reconstruction shows King Richard III’s grave as it appeared during excavation in 2012. (Credit: University of Leicester) One year after King Richard III’s remains were reburied, the ...

Read John Watkins' article "What Richard III Can Teach Us Today." Since the recent discovery and ID of Richard III's bones under a Leicester parking lot, historians have been debating his legacy. Was ...

Archaeologists may have uncovered the skeleton of the lost English king Richard III. But if they have, what should be done with the remains? That question is causing contention among Richard III ...

“I am determined to prove a villain,” Richard III famously tells us at the very top of the Shakespearean drama that bears his name, justifying his choice by himself being “rudely stamped,” “not shaped ...

With the announcement that Richard III’s long-lost remains – curved spine and all – are to be buried at Leicester Cathedral on March 26, 2015, the UK city is set for another spike in tourist numbers ...

The personal prayer book of King Richard III — in which the English king likely scrawled a reminder of his birthday in his own hand — is now available to peruse online. Leicester Cathedral digitized ...