Forensic sleuth probes fate of royal lovers and lion hearts
Pathologist Philippe Charlier looks at the skull of Agnes Sorel, French King Charles VII’s lover, in 2004. With powerful microscopes and hi-tech diagnostics that tease out chemical signatures and DNA telltales, Charlier pores over centuries-old remains to probe the riddles of history.
The French media like to call him the “Indiana Jones of the graveyards”, but perhaps a better tag would be the Sherlock Holmes of forensic science.
(Source: myowneulogy.com)
