DNA testing ends mystery surrounding Czar Nicholas II children
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 20:14
in Paleontology & Archaeology
With bone fragment analysis, scientists put to rest the rumors that two children might have escaped the royal family's murder during the Russian Revolution. The most enduring and romantic legend of the Russian Revolution -- that two children of Czar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra, survived the slaughter that killed the rest of their family -- may finally be put to rest with the positive identification of bone fragments from a lonely Russian grave.