Legacy MattersFinding a skull and partial remains in Frombork Cathedral in north-eastern Poland, someone had a hunch.
The remains were taken to specialists at the central crime laboratory in Warsaw for computer-generated reconstruction.
Putting together all the clues - age, reconstruction, known portraits and place where found, scientists are convinced they have found the body of Nicolaus Copernicus, father of modern astronomy, who died in 1543 aged 70.