Miklós Kásler - Zoltán Szentirmay (szerk.): Identifying the Árpád Dynasty Skeletons Interred in the Matthias Church. Applying data from historical, archaeological, anthropological, radiological, morphological, radiocarbon dating and genetic research (Budapest, 2021)
CHAPTER THREE – Archaeological, anthropological and radiological data
CHAPTER THREE PIROSKA BICZÓ, MÁRIA GÖDÉNY, GYÖRGY SZABADOS, ZOLTÁN SZENTIRMAY ARCHAEOLOGICAL, ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL DATA We have reliable data on the discovery of King Béla III and Queen Anne of Antioch. In 1849, János Pauer, a priest and teacher in the town of Székesfehérvár, and János Érdy, an archaeologist, were among the first to describe the events (Pauer 1849; Érdy 1853). At the János Érdy memorial meeting in 1998, Dr Zsófia Demeter (1999), director of the King Saint István Museum at the time, gave a perfect, detailed summary, using the minutes of the City Council of Székesfehérvár. Some details from these are quoted directly in the following: “Székesfehérvár is good at drinking water, and in its poor inner city, digging or drilling wells was always a top priority. For this reason, the City Council declared that a new well should be drilled outside the walls of the Bishopric, starting from February 14, 1847. In early September, during the earthworks around the well, the walls of an old structure were found. The earthworks continued around the well in 1848: on May 5, the engineer Kállinger reported that the stones 57
