And they brought him a denarius. Then he said to them, “Whose head is this and whose title?” — Matthew 22:19
Recent DNA tests reveal that a software engineer from South Carolina shared an exact match to the maternal mitochondrial DNA of King Richard III of England. As you may know, the King’s bones were discovered in 2012 under a parking lot in England on land that was once a friary. The bones showed signs of a spinal deformity the king was known to have had. The skull showed wounds consistent with accounts of his death in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field. In March 2015, some 530 years after his death on the battlefield, and after three years of DNA testing, the King finally received a proper royal burial in an Anglican Cathedral church.
Thanks to the precision of DNA testing, David…