Scientists will give the full "CSI" treatment to the purported remains of 15th-century French heroine Joan of Arc, said to have been left behind after she was burned at the stake.

Dr Charlier said Joan of Arc was burned three times on 30 May in 1431, following her trial in the Normandy town of Rouen. She died of smoke inhalation. Nothing was said to remain after the third ...

Joan of Arc was beatified in 1909 and made a saint in 1920. The supposed remains were gathered by an unidentified person and conserved by an apothecary until 1867, when they were turned over to ...

Last year, Dr Charlier, and his team at the Hôpital Raymond Poincaré in Garches, west of Paris, studied the remains of Agnès Sorel (1422-50), the "official" mistress of King Charles VII, the ...