"The events of Richard III's reign and his death in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth are known worldwide through Shakespeare's most performed, filmed and translated history play. Digging for Richard III is the page-turning story of how his grave was found, the people behind the discovery and what it tells us. It is the first complete narrative of a project that blended passion, science, luck and detection. Told by a noted archaeologist with access to all the parties involved, it follows the quest from an idea born in an Edinburgh bookshop to the day, fourteen years later, when two archaeologists carefully raised the bones from a car park in Leicester, and the scientific studies that resulted."--Book jacket.

Act I: England, 1452-85 -- Act II: Looking for Richard III -- Scene 1. Leicester. A bridge -- Scene 2. The same. A friary -- Scene 3. The same. A university -- Act III: Excavation in 2012 -- Scene 1. Greyfriars. A car park -- Scene 2. The same. A grave -- Act IV: An autopsy -- Act V: An inquest -- Epilogue: A battlefield, and a burial.