A group of scientists has submitted a formal application to the Church of England to revive the remains of William Shakespeare, so they can find out about his life and death and most importantly, if he was a pot head.
The team led by Francis Thackeray, an anthropologist and director of the Institute for Human Evolution at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa hopes to dig up the bard’s grave in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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“We have incredible techniques. We don’t intend to move the remains at all,” Fox News quoted Thackeray as saying about the “non-destructive analysis” the team has planned.
The team plans to perform the forensic analysis using state-of-the-art technology to scan the bones and create a groundbreaking reconstruction.
After confirming the playwright’s identity, Thackeray hopes to solve the longstanding mystery of Shakespeare’s final days and the life he had led.
The team also looks to address a controversial suggestion Thackeray made a decade ago, when he examined a collection of two dozen pipes found in the playwright’s garden and determined that Shakespeare was an avid marijuana smoker.
“If we find grooves between the canine and the incisor, that will tell us if he was chewing on a pipe as well as smoking,” Thackeray said while citing similar evidence found in Virginia.
