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03 March 2008, 18:12“Royal remains” studies begin at University of Massachusetts
Yekaterinburg, March 3, Interfax - Forensic experts from Sverdlovsk, Russia, have started examining "royal remains" at the genetics laboratory of the University of Massachusetts, U.S.
Russian experts left for the U.S. in late February to take part in the research, Nikolay Nevolin, the head of the Sverdlovsk regional forensic medical bureau, told Interfax.
According to the initial plan, the research was to be moved to America after it was over in Russia.
"We have not received all the chemicals thus far, so we thought no time should be lost, and our experts left, taking along small bone fragments. The examination is expected to continue for two months until mid-end of April," Nevolin said.
In any case, he said, the results will be announced after the research is over in all laboratories.
Earlier reports said that fragments of two bodies - presumably those of a child aged 10-14 and a woman aged 20 - with signs of murder were discovered during excavation works on Staraya Koptyakovskaya road near Yekaterinburg in July 2007.
Experts agued that the remains found could be those of tsar Nicholas II's son Alexey and daughter, Grand Princess Maria Romanova. |
