Why Do Bones Belong To King Richard III

sure that the bones actually belong to King Richard. Who is to make the decision that the bones are truly his though? Without all of the evidence supporting positive, who is to know?

Scientists are continuously trying to work out the case. They compared DNA of the skeleton to those of living posterity. They concluded that it in fact matched the king from what they could tell. The tests that some scientists and archeologists ran were; DNA samples, cutting edge x-ray tomography, carbon dating, etc.

Archeologists cannot say for sure that the bones that were found are in fact from King Richard III. Countless tests have been ran on the bones to help prove this theory. Some believe that the body, or bones, that was found, might have