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🗓️ 17 July 2024
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July 17, 1674. The skeletons of two boys are discovered in the Tower of London, leading to speculation that they are the long-lost King Edward V and his brother.
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0:10.0 | 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. |
0:37.2 | The impact shakes his entire body, but he barely pauses before lifting the hammer back up and taking another swing. |
0:44.6 | The Tower of London has stood on this site for more than 600 years, but today's royal |
0:49.4 | palace bears little resemblance to the original fortress. |
0:52.9 | Almost every English monarch has left his mark on the tower, |
0:56.3 | constructing new buildings, strengthening the walls, |
0:58.9 | and demolishing old rooms. |
1:00.8 | Today, this laborer is knocking down a flight of stairs to make way for a new chapel. |
1:06.3 | With another powerful swing of the hammer, part of the staircase collapses. |
1:10.8 | 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. |
1:19.0 | Curious, the laborer drags the chest out of the rubble. |
1:24.0 | If there's a long forgotten royal treasure inside, he might be able to pocket it before anyone notices. |
1:30.0 | He could become rich enough to start a new life, one that doesn't involve hard physical labor. |
1:36.2 | With the last check to make sure he's alone, the laborer opens the chest, then recoils. There's no glittering gold inside. |
1:45.0 | Instead, there's a pile of white bones and sitting on top two small human skulls. |
1:53.0 | Investigations into the bones reveal them to be the remains of two children. |
1:58.0 | Royal historians excitedly proclaimed that the skeletons must belong to the deposed 12-year-old King |
2:03.9 | Edward V and his younger brother who mysteriously disappeared in the Tower of |
2:08.4 | London almost two centuries earlier. This grisly discovery will add to the speculation that the princes in the |
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