Into the bowels: Richard III's remains riddled with roundworms
Tuesday, September 3, 2013 - 17:50
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Richard III may have been a blue-blooded royal, but to the roving parasites of the late Middle Ages he was just another piece of tasty human gut. New analysis of the king's remains indicate that Richard III had a clear case of intestinal parasites, brought on by hygiene that was at best medieval.