It's a story worthy of Alexandre Dumas himself. - 'Too much fish' - The jury is therefore still out on whether the bones buried beneath the church belong to d'Artagnan, the swashbuckling French ...

The skeleton of a French nobleman whose life inspired Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers may have been found buried in a church in the Dutch city of Maastricht, officials say. Workers discovered a ...

After months of speculation and reports of a bungled investigation, Maastricht city hall said on Thursday there was still not enough evidence to identify the skeleton.

The skeleton of the legendary Fourth Musketeer Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan has potentially been discovered at a church in the Netherlands. It was a case of death imitating art.

Wolder, near the Belgian border, is waiting to see if the skeleton it dug up in a church is Count d’Artagnan, from Alexandre Dumas’s tale. By Jeanna Smialek Reporting from Wolder and nearby Maastricht ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view inside the Peter and Paul Church in Maastricht shows an excavation pit opened in the floor, where archaeologists believe ...

The remains of d'Artagnan, a swashbuckling swordsman made famous by French writer Alexandre Dumas' 19th century novel The Three Musketeers, may have been found under the tiles of a church in the ...

Now for an update about a centuries-old mystery. The remains of the real-life d'Artagnan, the swashbuckling swordsman who longed to join the Three Musketeers in the famous novel, they may have been ...

The discovery of old bones could finally reveal the real life story of d'Artagnan—who has long been cast in the shadow of Alexandre Dumas's swashbuckling fictional character. Beneath a church in ...

Dutch authorities think they’ve found the long-lost burial of Charles de Batz de Castelmore—better known as D’Artagnan, the inspiration behind The Three Musketeers—after awfully suspicious remains ...

Amsterdam — The skeleton of famed French musketeer Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan may have been found in front of a church altar in the Dutch city of Maastricht, church officials and an ...