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POPSJoan Of Arc Remains Found To Be Fake "The embalming products appear to have prevented the conservation of the DNA, and they are too old, so it didn't work," Charlier said. The remains supposedly were recovered from Joan of Arc's pyre and conserved by an apothecary until 1867, before being turned over to the archdiocese of Tours. Joan of Arc was tried for heresy and witchcraft and burned at the stake after leading the French to several victories over the English during the Hundred Years War, notably in Orleans, south of Paris. The illiterate farm girl from Lorraine, in eastern France, disguised herself as a man in her war campaigns and said she heard voices from a trio of saints telling her to deliver France from the English. The London-based scientific journal Nature was first to report that the team had concluded that the remains were from a mummy, not Joan of Arc.
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