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or you can get all of History Daily plus other fantastic history podcasts at into History.com. It's July 17th, 1674 at the Tower of London in England. A laborer lifts a sledgehammer above his head and brings it down hard on a stone staircase.

The impact shakes his entire body, but he barely pauses before lifting the hammer back up and taking another swing.

The Tower of London has stood on this site for more than 600 years, but today's royal

palace bears little resemblance to the original fortress.

Almost every English monarch has left his mark on the tower,

constructing new buildings, strengthening the walls,

and demolishing old rooms.

Today, this laborer is knocking down a flight of stairs to make way for a new chapel.

With another powerful swing of the hammer, part of the staircase collapses.

But as the dust clears, the laborer realizes there's a hidden void behind the stairs and near the back of the cavity is a wooden chest.

Curious, the laborer drags the chest out of the rubble.

If there's a long forgotten royal treasure inside, he might be able to pocket it before anyone notices.

He could become rich enough to start a new life, one that doesn't involve hard physical labor.

With the last check to make sure he's alone, the laborer opens the chest, then recoils. There's no glittering gold inside.

Instead, there's a pile of white bones and sitting on top two small human skulls.

Investigations into the bones reveal them to be the remains of two children.

Royal historians excitedly proclaimed that the skeletons must belong to the deposed 12-year-old King

Edward V and his younger brother who mysteriously disappeared in the Tower of

London almost two centuries earlier. This grisly discovery will add to the speculation that the princes in the

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