article_snippet: Call it a fluke, or call it fate, but as it turned out fate hit the right spot almost immediately: Richard III's skeleton was found on the very first day of the dig, in the first trench dug by the team.
article_snippet: It wasn't until days later, as archaeologist Jo Appleby carefully exhumed the rest of Richard III's skeleton that Jo Appleby spotted the distinct curve of its spine, and the devastating damage medieval weapons had left on its skull.
article_snippet: For Philippa Langley, founder of the "Looking for Richard" project, who stood watching with bated breath as the bones were uncovered, the discovery was a vindication of the years Jo Appleby had spent trying to get people to search for the King's remains -- and to look again at the King reputation.
article_snippet: Years of research had convinced Langley of two things: firstly, that the King remains lay underneath a car park, in what had once been the Grey Friars' monastery, and secondly, that the King was much-maligned, the victim of bitter Tudor propaganda after the King death.
article_snippet: Two-and-a-half years on, Langley believes the discovery -- which proved Langley first theory to be correct -- and the scientific research carried out since, have forced a rethink of Richard III story.
article_snippet: This weekend, Richard III skeleton will leave the laboratory at the University of Leicester, where Richard III's skeleton has been kept since Richard III's skeleton was found, and be taken back to Bosworth, scene of Richard III death in 1485, for a commemoration ceremony, before being returned to Leicester ahead of Leicester reburial next week.
highlights_snippet: Richard III's remains were found beneath a car park in Leicester in 2012 .
  