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2.25.2010

Researchers hold breath as they lift lid on history in quest for Archbishop Wichmann

Roger Boyes

The archbishop has aged well. After 800 years, a tomb believed to contain the remains of one of the key advisers to the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa was opened for the first time yesterday — revealing an astonishingly well-preserved skeleton with whisps of eyebrow hair, a trace of flesh and feet decked in stylish, gold brocaded sandals.

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