Experts: William Shakespeare's skull was probably kidnapped from his grave

The skull of the famous English playwright William Shakespeare was probably stolen from his grave hunters for valuable trophies. Experts came to this conclusion, scanning the burial, reports Sky News .

The geo-radar scanning of Shakespeare's grave in the Church of the Holy Trinity in the British city of Stratford-on-Evonu (County Warokshire) showed a strange violation in the person’s head buried in it. Thus, the conclusion of experts confirms the report that the skull of the author of Othello and Hamlet was extracted from the grave and stolen in 1794. As the Air Force recalls, rumors about this appeared in 1879, but were later called fiction.

“We have a Burial of Shakespeare with a strange violation in the head area, and we have a story that suggests that at some historical moment someone came and took Shakespeare’s skull,” said the project manager, archaeologist Kevin Chevin Cevin Cevin Cevin Cevin Cevin Cevin Kolls from the University of Staffordshire. “This is very, very convinced that his skulls are not in the Holy Trinity at all,” the scientist emphasized.

Experts decided to examine Shakespeare's grave, because the technology of georandal scanning allows you to do this without violating the integrity of the burial. The study was dedicated to the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Evon in 1564, died there on April 23 (May 3), 1616. It is traditionally believed that he died on his birthday, but historians have no confidence that Shakespeare was born precisely on April 23. Three days after his death, Shakespeare's body was buried in the Church of the Holy Trinity. On the tombstone of the playwright, epitaph was written:

Friend, for the sake of the Lord, do not swear
The remains taken by this land;
He untouched Blessed for centuries,
And cursed - the touched my ashes.
(Translation by A. Velichansky).

The creative heritage of the playwright consists of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, four poems and three epitaphs. Shakespeare's plays are translated into all basic languages ​​and are placed on the stage more often than the works of other playwrights.