MADRID, Spain – Preliminary forensic tests conducted on the mummified body of 14th century prince found the 7-year-old may not have been poisoned by an uncle, as historians have suspected for centuries, a newspaper reported Saturday.
The preliminary tests indicated that Prince Sancho de Castilla may have died in 1370 of a lung infection after chronic exposure to smoke, likely from a fireplace, El Pais reported.
Historians have suspected the prince’s uncle, Enrique, murdered Sancho to inherit the throne of Castilla.
But tests by the Universities of Granada and Alcala de Henares and the pathology unit of Barcelona’s Clinico Hospital found no traces of cyanide or arsenic.
The investigation is still not finished. Scientists will also try to produce a three-dimensional reconstruction of the prince’s face, El Pais reported.
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