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A team of experts led by a specialist in historical discoveries mortuary, Philippe Charlier, a cross between Indiana Jones of the cemeteries and the House Doctor have authenticated the discovery of the head of Henry IV, killed two wounds in Paris in 1610. The mummified head of a pensioner kept on the shelf of a closet, and is, according to the team, "in good condition," as for embalming technique was used in Italy that gave good results. In fact, known in France as "Good King" is seen a cut in the upper left lip, the result of another gash he received, this time in 1594, at the hands of Jean Châtel, who tried unsuccessfully to assassinate him. The mummified head also has a hole in the ear, which testifies that Henry IV was the fashion of the court then wear earrings. His eyes are half closed and mouth open and there are still remnants of hair and mustache.

In the study by the expert group, published today in the British Medical Journal, also is recorded that the king wore a large bald head, which had, at age 57, age at death, cataracts, many problems millstones, who suffered from osteoarthritis.

Buried along with the other kings of France in Saint Denis Basilica, a few miles north of Paris, in 1793 his coffin was plundered by French revolutionaries. He cut off his arms and was beheaded. Later, along with other French kings, he was reburied there. But the head had disappeared. Lurched by France and Germany, says the newspaper Le Figaro today, fell into the hands of a painter in Montmartre which resold it for three francs, an antiquarian who never got to be believed when insured, including the Louvre, which had the real head the king. In 1940 he disappeared again until it has returned to reappear, as mummified as before, wrapped in cloth and in a chest on a shelf in the closet of a retiree.

What will happen now with the head? "There is nothing planned for now," he told Agence France Presse Patrick Monod, administrator of the Basilica of Saint Denis, "but it would be strange that end up back here."