A news item for Halloween: Scientists dig up family skel

Scientists dig up family skeletons

Luke Harding in Berlin
Wednesday October 27, 2004
The Guardian

It has been a mystery for more than a century - is a skull in an Austrian basement really that of arguably the greatest composer of all time, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
Over the weekend a group of archaeologists began to answer the question by digging up the remains of Mozart’s close relatives.

Full story here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1336691,00.html


MarkB

Interesting stuff,though I found it a bit weird that he spent most of his life in the family crypt!(paragraph three)
On the same page I found this,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1337495,00.html

Which I found much more interesting ,if somewhat sad.

Slan,
D.

(Sorry for the hijacking of the thread,I’m sure normal service will be resumed soon :blush: )

Do they have Halloween in Austria?