Archaeology-ABC Wednesday

ABC Wednesday

A new Blog Hop I am going to try out.  It seems less strenuous than the April A-Z, which I tried in 2013 and almost quit blogging after that!

My A is Archaeology

Mr BC and I are mad about History and Archaeology.  We love that our niece Megan is getting her Master Degree in the subject and that we have an actual Archaeologist in the family.

Most of our vacations are centered around all things historical, so of course when we made our trip to London a year ago, we were in "Just Think" heaven when ever we stood in front of or on History!  We would have loved to have gone to Leicester to see all things Richard lll found in that parking lot.

When I went to London at the turn of the century with DD2, they were just starting to uncover part of a Roman wall at Tower Hill. we were able to see so much more this trip. 

Of course we especially wanted to visit the British Museum and a multitude of archaeological finds were to be found there.

And Selfies are abundant for these arm chair archaeologists!

DIGGING Up the DEAD April A to Z

I am stretching Mama Kat's Prompt-Something New You Tried.

I am currently participating in the A-Z challenge without a theme, which is the something new.  I am posting and commenting every day which is something, I have never tried before and it is time consuming. Yesterday I spent all day on the computer. It has been a challenge to come up with a post for every letter of the alphabet this April.  I am glad I have a few done already, so that I can still be doing some posts for my other favorite memes. I hope I can keep all this going, until the end of April.

 

                                  Digging Up the Dead

My good bloggy friend, Comtesse Olympe de la Tour D'Auvergne, over at Amphorae keeps me apprised of many things, historical. Apparently the Brits have been digging up their history in carparks.

Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

The BBC was first to let us know about King Richard lll being found buried, just where history said he would, be hastily buried by the Greyfriars Priory near Leicester.  He has at least two modern-day descendants of his family, who were able to provide the DNA and it is...without a doubt, mean ol' Richard lll. Found in a modern day parking lot. So cool to witness history in the news.  It should be easy to link to link the DNA of Richard to the bones of the two boys found in the tower, to determine if they are the two Princes, however, those remains are interred in Westminster Abbey and they are not willing to have the tests made even to solve the mystery of the disappearance of the young princes, during Richard's Protectorate.