Past Crimes. Archaeological and Historical Evidence for Ancient Misdeeds
PAST CRIMES allow for the passage of a baby during birth. Men tend to have a larger socket for the hip bone than women. Another ...
Tuberculosis, syphilis, and some forms of cancer also leave traces. Study of the teeth can tell us a great deal about hygiene an ...
PAST CRIMES medicine was available. Other injuries can indicate that the person was executed–by hanging or decapitation, for exa ...
oxygen and water in the soil around the bones, and that in turn means that living organisms that can destroy bone have easier ac ...
PAST CRIMES side of its ancestry. Forensic analysis involves extracting DNA from a subject, then copying and increasing it to en ...
In the case of the recent identification of the remains of King Richard III, it has been possible to compare DNA extracted from ...
PAST CRIMES birthmarks or scars. Not all muscles attach directly to facial bones, and can vary a great deal between individuals. ...
studied to determine the source of a document and its author. Ransom notes received by the Lindbergh family in 1932 after the ki ...
PAST CRIMES In this book, crimes and punishments will be described for many periods. Some very famous crimes have been left out, ...
Chapter 2 The O ldest C ri mes Prehistoric crime–problems Even before people learned how to read and write, they were certainly ...
PAST CRIMES Single graves are even more of a problem. They are found more often than mass graves, and have even fewer clues. All ...
substances such as red ochre, a practice which has been noted on the remains of our extinct cousins, the Neanderthals, and in ma ...
PAST CRIMES The wedgeshaped symbols could also be readily carved into stone, and it is in this form that we find one of the old ...
brutal in this way–aliar lost his tongue, or a duplicitous wetnurse would have a breast cut off. The death penalty was enacted ...
PAST CRIMES Assyrian empire around 1,000BC, a time when there appears to have been a widespread disaster affecting most of Euras ...
Ancient Egyptian law and crimes Egyptian law also seems to have been recorded, but it lacked judges and courts in the early peri ...
PAST CRIMES Citizens could petition local officials to investigate crimes on their behalf. One such petition tells of a crime‘pe ...
comes from the time of Rameses IX (1129─ 1111 BC). Tombs were being looted, but the governor of the necropolis, Pewre, was doin ...
PAST CRIMES herdsman called Bukhef, who after being flogged, revealed a long list of names of his accomplices. It is a shame tha ...
removed. One estimate suggests that about 60% of the jewellery that had been deposited in the chamber known as the‘Treasury’had ...
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