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Rowdyboy

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7. Here's the only explanation I can find.....

Thu Feb 6, 2014, 03:50 PM

Feb 2014

http://in.news.yahoo.com/1200-old-bones-father-europe-charlemagne-unearthed-germany-055630570.html

Frank Ruhli, Head of the Center for Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, said that it might appear as an obvious conclusion but it isn't, as Charlemagne was exhumed and reburied many times with parts of his body given away as relics, so identifying his skeleton is not an easy task, Discovery News reported.

Ruhli, who announced the results of the study last week, 1,200 years after Charlemagne's death, said the bones appear to belong to a single individual, an old and rather tall man. This matches contemporary descriptions of Charlemagne.

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Scientists have likely found Charlemagne's skeleton [View all] Rowdyboy Feb 2014 OP

History is so cool. nt BootinUp Feb 2014 #1

Excellent news, my dear Rowdyboy! CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2014 #2

Grandpa, they found you! Zen Democrat Feb 2014 #3

Including a friend of mine I'll see tomorrow.... Rowdyboy Feb 2014 #4

Yup, Sherman A1 Feb 2014 #10

Think you are correct unc70 Feb 2014 #11

I would say so. I believe I am. nt silvershadow Feb 2014 #12

Certainly everyone with any Caucasian blood probably is GeoWilliam750 Feb 2014 #21

So, at least part of Charlemagne was buried in Charlemagne's tomb HereSince1628 Feb 2014 #5

Here's the only explanation I can find..... Rowdyboy Feb 2014 #7

Thanks. HereSince1628 Feb 2014 #8

Charles the Magnificent. Now there's a nickname to envy. tclambert Feb 2014 #6

I had a flash back.... AnneD Feb 2014 #13

I kept thinking of that, too. tclambert Feb 2014 #16

There's a T.C. Boyle story thucythucy Feb 2014 #19

There was an honest to God Viking beserker called Ivar the Boneless.... Rowdyboy Feb 2014 #20

That's pretty amazing! thucythucy Feb 2014 #22

my friend is named Zoltifar the Magnificent and Untamed. BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2014 #15

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heeeeeeeee! BlancheSplanchnik Dec 2014 #27

Ever read any T. C. Boyle? thucythucy Mar 2018 #29

My kind of king packman Feb 2014 #9

Huh? not mine *killed all non christians to create a christian kingdom lunasun Feb 2014 #17

Looking at Middle Age packman Feb 2014 #18

Our modern popular image of Medieval monarchs pretty much comes from him. Odin2005 Nov 2014 #23

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Bender was the first thing to pop into my head... Lawlbringer Feb 2014 #14

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