Posted on 03/24/2016 10:53:29 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Keeping company with Mozart’s skull?
Check 64 High Street, New Haven CT.
Put those two heads together and you could get a hell of a song-and-dance number!
ROFL!!!!!!
Almost the same thing happened to Ted Williams - although they knew where the head went.
alas poor yorick....
Probably setting on some bone collector’s shelf next to the head of Pancho Villa.
Somewhere in buckingham palace some royal is playing the “Dear Ulrich” scene with Shakespear’s own skull because the original is always better than a copy. B
Oooh. Very nice. Goes to show, Even in death, Women hathaway of making men lose their heads.
“Abby someone.”
Women. Yeah. Sure. Right.
Anne how.
Richard III’s ultimate revenge?
Bush’s fault. Skull and Bones.
Now it's time to play "Alas, Poor Who?"
Excellent!
Fuzzy Thurston comingh around wide...those were the days.
It’s sitting in a vault beneath Sheldon chapel at St Leonard’s Church in Beoley, Redditch.
I’m huge!
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