The Moment Archaeologist Mathew Morris Found Richard III's Remains 

That woman was mental. Like she had some weird fetish for him.

@@RichardStrong86 uh, a usual canadian dingbat!

They are the experts, not Ms Langley. She raised the money of course but is NOT an archaeologist.

@Paul Denison I partly agree, Paul, BUT in the 80's there was another archeologist/reseracher who had often written that the likely remains were in GreyFriars Monastery, not the Augustianian 'Blackfriars' where someone had previously looked. I can't remember who he is but will find out.! Philippa Langley was dogged, determined and of course she was instrumental in all this.

@Paul Denison Well, I asked Richard Buckley, (head of ULAS ), some years later, why did They not look for Cardinal Wolsey who is said to be buried in Abbey Park, Leicester, where he died. Richard Buckley said that it was a) not the job of archaeologists to “look for famous people” and b) there is not usually the funding for it. So what Philippa and the Richard III Society did was to find the money. John Ashdown Hill was one of the historians whose name I forgot and who had traced Richard III DNA and the possibility that Greyfriars was his resting place.

@Paul Denison It has been interesting discussing this and clearly we have different views on the subject of who was most deserving. In the end, there was a successful and fascinating dig at that car park (which I happen to know as I live near the city). Credit to everyone who ‘found’ Richard III. I was sad when Ashdown Hill died. He paid personally for early DNA tests and was possibly miffed at not getting as much credit as Turi King. I assume you would agree!!

she did it all as we all know from the film now out called the lost king

BS

She got loads of credit on this BBC documentary, this is just a short clip that has been pinched from it. Don't get all worked up, watch the documentary.

Doctor, you should research before making comments

She got a shit ton of credit. I'm literally reading a book about the princess in the tower from a book deal she got after this discovery

Can't agree "world", the War of the Roses was a parochial affair. England & Europe yes, but the World was still isolated in regions like the Incas & Mayans, to China who were much more advanced than the Middle Ages in Europe tho the Cathedrals were stunning but in Richard's time they were still under construction. You have Asia too. We were still a backyard goings on & I think France & Spain were more powerful than Richard ever was. Henry VII was the one King who started to make England a powerhouse thru his craftiness, his son also got England on the map & Elizabeth 1 was the ONE who did make England a world top dog vying with Spain & France.

makes you wonder who is burried under the ground of the building you are in right now. doesn't it.

I bet that was like living in Rome since most ruins where underneath the city

lol

I think this might redress the facts... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Bgv6KHeAFeY.html

The film will expose all involved and should be charged in a court of law, the University are a disgrace.

You can watch the documentary to this day. It's been up on RU-vid for 4 years. There are also interviews with all involved, including Langley (as she was involved throughout the entire process, despite what some seem to insist retrospectively) She also was really weirdly upset and a bit defensive about him having a curved spine, which means nothing about him. As Simon Farnaby pointed out to her, he could've had a curved spine and still been a nice guy.

Yes we finally got a European Union

@@marioskublan7273 And WE left it!

He actually should be locked up & put on trial for child murders of 2 Princes. Only the cheating robbing royalty that still goes on today.

That's not true. The Richard III Society itself has an FAQ, and you can watch the entire thing in documentary form. The Society's website breaks down all the funding; 'The principal funding for the original three-week project came from the Richard III Society and its members including a £5,000 contribution from its Chairman. The Society’s contribution represented nearly 53% of the original project’s total funding. Leicester City Council also put together a £5,000 contingency budget, in case it was required. The preliminary research and three-week project which found King Richard cost £32,867. Richard III Society, members and other Ricardians £17,367 (52.84%) University of Leicester £10,000 (30.43%) Leicestershire Promotions £5,000 (15.21%) Leicester Adult Schools £500 (1.52%) The remaining funding of £716 from the International Appeal (see below) was paid to ULAS by Langley at the end of the dig for costs including those associated with the recovery of the King’s remains after she had instructed exhumation. As detailed earlier (see 16 above), the GPR survey cost £5,043. Dr Ashdown-Hill’s research work to uncover the genetic descendant of King Richard III and reveal the king’s mtDNA sequence cost the historian about £3,000. And a bursary of £1,140 was awarded to Langley by the Richard III Society for the cost she incurred for the Archaeological desk-based assessment.'

You can see that the skeleton was treated as potentially significant even in this video, even though the experts quite reasonably were quite restrained throughout the process (better not to jump the gun generally in these things)

@@caitlin329 What I mean is, she organised all that funding. None of it would have happened without her. I have no idea how she knew Richard was there, it's a wildly unscientific leap of intuition, a freak leap of faith, and she had no reason to be right... Yet she was. I can't explain it. But the University has no right to try and claim any credit for the project. They wouldn't have lifted a finger without her.

​@@nickgreen4731 They knew where to look thanks to the work of historian John Ashdown-Hill. He was also behind the tracing of Richard’s Mitochondrial DNA, paying for its sequencing out of his own pocket.

Who is that?? Another corpses?

It is the British way, no grotesque Americanisms or hype

At that moment they do not know yet. That is the first day of digging, and finding buried people in the church ground is expected. Only days later they came back and collected the bones.

They do not, here, know that this is Richard they've found...but they must have had it in mind that it could be, and surely their minds were racing...

@@boojay111 I'm sorry you feel that way.

@@AmandaFromWisconsin no need to be sorry, it is the truth. And you know it.

No, Philippa Langley, the University claimed they had, but had nothing to do with it, they are a disgrace.

Yes he DID! Amateurs would not know where to dig.

​@@maureenhallahan9336 The amateurs did the historical research that showed the archaeologists exactly where to dig. The amateurs spent many years persuading the authorities to allow it. Before approaching the university for assistance the amateurs contacted BBC Time Team, who turned them down (bet they’re still kicking themselves!) Finding someone to actually dig the hole wasn't easy. The amateurs also spent years tracing Richard's living descendents and had his mitochondrial DNA sequenced. Who deserves the credit for that? The guy in the DNA lab?

Great and exciting piece of history, but SHAME ON LEICESTER, for taking the credit as if they had done it all.

Who the fuck is that? Reread the title

In my vault

Shut up

You can't be too careful, otherwise you'd never get anything done, unfortunately.

That makes no sense though Caitlin. They have found the bones and after he does he just stabs carelessly almost. Sure you can have some lax sometimes but not WHEN you’ve found the bones finally. Geez

He’s catholic so he wouldn’t have wanted that

The cathedral that he's now buried in is Anglican. It is archeological custom to re-bury found bodies in the nearest consecrated ground.

I think he means a full skeleton, with the bones in their relative proper anatomical positions, not just a few, maybe scattered or bundled together.

Not at all; they just buried him quietly in the old friary. It wouldn't have been in the Tudors' interest to create a Plantagenet monument as Henry Tudor's claim to the throne was very tenuous - hence why he married Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, a Plantagenet king.

15th century people knew that the invention of the car was just around the corner so they just wanted to make sure they got a prime location, close to the shops

I agree, without Philippa Langley there would have been NO plan, or even the idea, to try and find King Richard III. Shame on all of those "hanger on's" and "johnny come lately's." Philippa Langley deserves all of the credit for finding King Richard III. All of those other people were just "identifier's" and then they tried to claim all of the glory. They are usurper's plain and simple. Dr. George Whitehead

Imagine simping electronically.

Imagine being so stupid blah that stating facts is called simping. Here’s another fact for you, you’re a f’in idiot

It’s history and he was real. Quit being dumb