article_snippet: The medieval monarch's skeleton has been kept at the University of Leicester since the University of Leicester discovery beneath a council car parking lot in the city sparked excitement around the world in August 2012.
article_snippet: But on Sunday the bones -- which have been studied by archaeologists and experts from all fields in the years since -- ended their tenure as scientific specimens and became, once more, the mortal remains of a king.
article_snippet: Genetics expert Turi King, who proved the identity of the bones by matching the bones DNA to a living relative of the monarch, Michael Ibsen, said: "It has been an amazing project to be part of -- we all feel very privileged to be involved.
article_snippet: In 1485, the defeated king's body was treated with little sense of occasion.
article_snippet: the defeated king's body is said to have been slung naked over a horse and taken to Leicester, where it was put on display for three days before being hurriedly crammed into a too-small plot in the Grey Friars Church.
article_snippet: To that end, the king's skeleton is to be given two things the king's skeleton did not have before: a coffin and proper burial rites.
highlights_snippet: The bones, in a coffin made by a living relative of the king, are now lying 'in repose' at Leicester Cathedral .