How Did King Richard III's Remains End Up Under a Parking Lot?

They paved the church and, a half-millennium later, put up a parking lot.

Archaeologists from the University of Leicester must have considered themselves lucky to have only a lowly parking lot standing in the way of their digging for a long-lost monastery believed to have hidden the bones of King Richard III for more than 500 years. The team announced today that the skeleton they found last summer in a hastily-made grave belonged "beyond reasonable doubt" to one of England's most notorious rulers.