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William Shakespeare's skull missing in his grave
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Shakespeare's skull is likely
missing from his grave, an archaeologist has concluded, confirming rumors which
have swirled for years about grave-robbers and adding to the mystery
surrounding the Bard's remains.
Four hundred years after his death
and burial at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon, central
England, researchers were allowed to scan the grave of England's greatest
playwright with ground-penetrating radar.
But in the area under the church
floor where the Bard's skull was expected to be, they found signs of
interference.
Lead archaeologist Kevin Colls, of
Staffordshire University, told the Guardian , "We
came across this very odd, strange thing at the head end. It was very obvious,
within all the data we were getting, that there was something different going
on at that particular spot. We have concluded it is signs of disturbance, of
material being dug out and put back again."
The findings deepen the mystery
around Shakespeare's last resting place.
The grave does not bear his name,
merely this warning rhyme: "Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear, to dig
the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And cursed
be he that moves my bones."
In their quest to find Shakespeare's
skull, Colls's team also investigated a long-standing tale that it was hidden
in a sealed crypt in another church 15 miles (24 km) across the English
countryside in Worcestershire.
But analysis of that skull showed it
to be that of a woman who had been in her 70s when she died.
The story of Shakespeare's missing
skull appeared in The Argosy magazine in 1879, which blamed the removal on
trophy hunters from the previous century when grave-robbing was common.
Skulls were worth collecting because
genius, thought some at that time, would be evident in the remains of a man
like Shakespeare, whose character Hamlet famously holds a skull while musing on
death.
The scan of the grave where
Shakespeare's remains rest next to those of his wife Anne Hathaway was
conducted in a non-intrusive way, said the team, who will present the results
in a Channel 4 television documentary due to air in Britain on Saturday.
"There are so many contradictory
myths and legends about the tomb of the Bard," said Colls in a statement.
"These results will undoubtedly
spark discussion, scholarly debate and controversial theories for years to
come. Even now, thinking of the findings sends shivers down my spine."
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