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Ben Franklin's Bones

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Secrets of the Dead

Resurrecting Richard III

Season 13 Episode 6

Find out what the bones of King Richard III reveal about his fitness for battle. When a group of amateur historians set out to find the bones of Richard III under a parking lot in England, everyone thought they were mad. Until, a skeleton - hunchbacked and with an arrow in its spine - emerged.

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Ben Franklin's Bones
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Learn why Franklin held human skeletal remains in the basement of his British residence.
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