Bones confirmed as tsar's

LONDON - New tests on bones dug up in Russia have removed lingering doubts that they belong to Tsar Nicholas II, murdered with…

LONDON - New tests on bones dug up in Russia have removed lingering doubts that they belong to Tsar Nicholas II, murdered with his family after the 1917 revolution, according to the journal Nature Genetics.

DNA from the bones was compared with that of relatives of the Romanovs, including the Duke of Edinburgh.

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