I thought I was going to read an interesting bit on forensic archeology for an informed layman and instead was treated to an outtake from My Weekly Reader.But to be honest, I didn’t find the article at the link to be all that much better.
Oh, I had the same experience. But I think “My Weekly Reader” would have been a few steps up from this monstrosity.
Seriously, I checked to see if I was reading a poor translation from some French news story when I read this gem:
The team first opened the sarcophagus of the first emperor in western Europe since the fall of the Roman Empire in secret in 1988 and presented their results for the first time on Wednesday.
Follow-up: Looks like our boy found this blurb and tried to rework it. Well, I guess we can be glad he wanted to avoid plagiarism.
http://www.archaeology.org/news/1782-140131-charlemagne-bones-sarcophagus