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A New Study of the Wounds of the Last English King Richard III showed that the death of the monarch in battle was quick, but terrible. Death found the last emperor from the Plantagenet dynasty on August 22 1485 during the Battle of Bosworth. By this time he ruled just two years. This battle was decisive in the long war of the Roses. As a result of the victory, Henry Tudor became the new English monarch. There are legends about the last minutes of Richard III’s life. Body of the monarch lost until September 2012, was extracted by archaeologists from under car parking in Leicester. Detailed skeleton studies allow us to conclude that only two of the many Richard’s wounds on the body could be fatal. Both of them were inflicted on the back of the head. Preliminary inspection of the skeleton of the king revealed the presence of scoliosis and the consequences of other head injuries, received by him in battle. Printed September 16 in The Magazine Lancet report contains a description of 11 damage to the skeleton, by time occurrence close to the time of the death of Richard, among them 9 injuries skulls. Three wounds are scalped, Sarah reports. Hainsworth (Sarah Hainsworth) professor and forensic expert University of Leicester. These attacks were sliding and called scalping the skin from the bones of the skull. Similar wounds usually profuse bleeding, but not fatal. Noteworthy the results of the study of these wounds. It is established that they are all applied different weapons: dagger, sword and halberd. Richard III was strong a man, a true warrior, he died surrounded by many well armed with various weapons of enemies, and not at the hands of one person. The death blow was probably dealt by a sword or halberd. Studies of the skull found injuries at the base of the skull 60×55 mm and 32×17 mm. A trace was also found on the inner wall of the skull in according to damage to the upper cervical vertebrae. The blade has passed through the head, the brain stopped at the opposite side of the skull. However, the reconstruction of wounds 500 years ago is enough difficult because there are no soft tissues. From records Richard’s contemporaries know that his horse got stuck in the mud and he was forced to leave her. He either took off himself, for he had lost his helmet, leaving the head and face unprotected. The last fatal blow was inflicted when he was kneeling with his head bowed. Face not was damaged so that you could see that it was Richard who died. Then the armor was removed from him and the body was thrown over the horse. Posthumous wounds were inflicted to humiliate the defeated king. “Death him was fast, ”says Hainesworth,“ but that doesn’t make her less scary. ”
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