| Prolly Jean of Arc. |
Eighteen experts began a series of tests six months ago on the fragments reportedly recovered from the pyre where the 19-year-old was burned for heresy.
Although the tests have not been completed, findings so far indicate there is 'relatively little chance' that the remnants are hers, Philippe Charlier, the head of the team, told The Associated Press on Saturday. The fragment of linen from the 15th century 'wasn't burned. It was dyed,' Charlier said. And a blackened substance around the 6-inch rib bone was not 'carbonized remains' but vegetable and mineral debris, 'something that rather resembles embalming substance,' he said.