Tuesday, May 06, 2008

News at Eleven: The skull had been thought

to be real for 180 years, given its close resemblance to [Friedrich] Schiller's death mask and contemporary portraits of the writer. The DNA tests also revealed that two additional skulls which some had claimed to be Schiller's also did not belong to the poet.

from Der Spiegel: DNA Tests Reveal 'Schiller's' Skull Not His

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