Thursday, 24 April 2014

Blood in gourd 'is not from beheaded Louis XVI'



An elaborately decorated gourd was thought to contain a handkerchief that had been dipped in the king's blood after he was killed by guillotine by French revolutionaries in 1793. But scientists have now sequenced the genome of the sample and say it is unlikely to belong to the monarch. via Pocket http://ift.tt/1jUKYUn

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