{"id":18908,"date":"2013-02-05T09:33:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T14:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18908"},"modified":"2013-02-05T09:33:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T14:33:54","slug":"what-did-king-richard-iii-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/05\/what-did-king-richard-iii-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What did King Richard III look like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-leicestershire-21328380\" target=\"_blank\">facial reconstruction<\/a> based on the skull of Richard III:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<blockquote><p>A facial reconstruction based on the skull of Richard III has revealed how the English king may have looked.<\/p>\n<p>The king&#8217;s skeleton was found under a car park in Leicester during an archaeological dig.<\/p>\n<p>The reconstructed face has a slightly arched nose and prominent chin, similar to features shown in portraits of Richard III painted after his death.<\/p>\n<p>Historian and author John Ashdown-Hill said seeing it was &#8220;almost like being face to face with a real person&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes after archaeologists from the University of Leicester confirmed the skeleton found last year was the 15th Century king&#8217;s, with DNA from the bones having matched that of descendants of the monarch&#8217;s family.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was unable to find an image of the reconstruction that is okay to use, but you can see various pictures on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=richard+iii+facial+reconstruction&#038;hl=en&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;hs=3wk&#038;tbo=d&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;source=lnms&#038;tbm=isch&#038;sa=X&#038;ei=FRgRUYynIcmE2QX7rIGADA&#038;ved=0CAoQ_AUoAA&#038;biw=1249&#038;bih=750\" target=\"_blank\">Google Image Search<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A facial reconstruction based on the skull of Richard III: A facial reconstruction based on the skull of Richard III has revealed how the English king may have looked. The king&#8217;s skeleton was found under a car park in Leicester during an archaeological dig. The reconstructed face has a slightly arched nose and prominent chin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,16],"tags":[288,183,771],"class_list":["post-18908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-science","tag-archaeology","tag-dna","tag-richardiii"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4UY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18910,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18908\/revisions\/18910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}