The strangest things are turning up in the hands of French pensioners these days—including the disembodied heads of France’s former monarchy.
Just three weeks after it was learned a retired electrician in southern France kept over 250 unknown artworks by Pablo Picasso secretly stashed away for the last 40 years, scientists now say a human head another French retiree stored in his garage is the noggin of King Henri IV.
The British Medical Journal reports that specialists have authenticated the mummified head as that of Henri IV, whose remains were dug up by royalist-hating revolutionaries in 1793, 183 years after the king’s assassination by a Catholic fanatic.
Full story: Head of Ancient French King Henri IV Kept In Retiree’s Garage