Posted by admin on Oct 10, 2013
A mummified head identified as that of the French king Henry IV three years ago may not belong to the monarch after all.
In 2010, researchers used digital facial reconstruction on the head, which had been in the hands of private collectors, to identify it as the “good King Henry,” who ruled France from 1589 to 1610. The king, according to historical legend, was exhumed and posthumously beheaded in 1793 during the French Revolution.
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