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

Figure 11. A: Saint László

’s herm

held in Győr.

B: Béla

Ill

’s facial reconstruction (King Saint István

Museum,

Székesfehérvár, by

Gyula

Skultéty).

An entry in the council meeting minutes from December 14 mentions other graves that were found without grave goods, and the fact that the artifacts collected would be brought to the National Museum at the expense of the Hungarian State (City Council minutes 1848,4619).

Public display of the royal graves attracted great interest both in the city and in nearby villages. Discovery of the royal graves became national news and inspired the poet János

Garay

(1812-1853) to compose his work “

Síri hang az élőkhöz” [Voice

from the grave to the living]. The 10th verse of the poem is quoted by Demeter (1999). From this poem, we quote the first, second and tenth verses:

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