Long Live Richard

[Zochitl]

What an amazing find after 500 years and he was there under a parking lot

 

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=60563#.URD_fcHnbIV

[P.A.]

It is truly amazing that we now have the technology to identify the reminds. If they had been found 50 years ago they would have just been reburied and we would have never known who it was.

[LoveLife&Laughter]

The sub story "Humiliation Wounds" behind the fantastic story of re-finding an unmarked grave, and that adjacent to  Franciscan Friary ruins destroyed by Henry VIII, is what catches my attention.

I have always been horrified about what the "savages" did to General Custer and his troops after they were killed at the Little Big Horn, "Humiliation Wounds" .  Now we learn that our medieval ancestors were just as savage, dragging Richard's tied bloody nude corpse roughshod and sticking a dagger up his arse before unceremoniously dumping him into a too-small shallow grave.  At least they buried him of sorts, our Indians didn't bother.

All the same, my people called American Indians "savages"?

[Zochitl]

Is that a book HUMILIATING WOUNDS Lovelife&Laughter?  If it is I would love to read it. Who wrote it?TIA

[LoveLife&Laughter]

The knife stuck up Richard's butt (after he was dead) is considered a humiliation wound, defacing the dignity of the dead.  After death wounds at Little Big Horn included cutting off the dead person's privates and sticking them in his mouth for his friends to find.  Really sick stuff.

[Dennis Barsten]

I believe man wrote it...

How to inflict Humiliation Wounds...

[Zochitl]

I don't understand what man Dennis ?

[Marianne Kiendl]

[redhand]

Now that sign makes sense. You wouldn't want to degrade the dignity of a parking lot.

[Zochitl]

Very well said.