Dutch Garden May Hold Musketeers' Skeletons

Wednesday, May 5, 2004

(2:18 PM ET) (18:18 GMT)

Reuters

Maastricht is best known today for hosting the 1992 signing of the Treaty on European Union. Its bloody past boasts the 1673 siege personally led by French Sun King Louis XIV in which famed musketeer D'Artagnan was killed.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Reuters
Are the three musketeers and four swashbuckling chums buried under an unassuming Dutch garden in the town where legendary swordsman D'Artagnan was killed?

Police plan to turn over an investigation into the discovery of the seven skeletons to archaeologists in the southern Dutch town of Maastricht, which has a history of battles going back to Roman times.

"Specialists are determining how long the bodies have been there," a police spokesman said Tuesday.

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