Past Crimes. Archaeological and Historical Evidence for Ancient Misdeeds
PAST CRIMES young man found nearby, who was aged about 18, showed that he had the same DNA as the pharaoh, in a proportion typic ...
of defence wounds on his arms, so it seems he was attacked suddenly from behind by his murderer.^6 Stone Age murders Most cases ...
PAST CRIMES spear that created similar damage in the pig carcass to that observed in the Neanderthal skeleton. The wound was not ...
specific clue present. One of the skeletons studied in South Africa was that of a young female found near the southern Cape coas ...
PAST CRIMES During the Mesolithic (beginning around 11500BC) and the following Neolithic period from around 6500BC, there were m ...
found to contain human myoglobin, a component of blood. Blood does not normally enter the digestive tract, unless it is consumed ...
PAST CRIMES of his ribs was cracked, and a sinew cord was wrapped tightly round his neck. Clearly, his killers had wanted to do ...
(including homosexuality) were accorded a more ignominious death–they were to be thrown into bogs where their moral pollution wo ...
PAST CRIMES At first, everyone believed that this 45 year old man had fallen victim to a storm or an accident in the mountains. ...
Other tools and equipment were found around the body. These included a flint knife with a wooden handle attached by animal sinew ...
PAST CRIMES before he died, a time period estimated from the degree of digestion of the pollens. The pollens also indicated that ...
There is also speculation that someone actually buried him–it has been argued that the way the body and equipment were originall ...
CHAPTER 3 Classical C ri mes Law and order in classical societies The period of the classical civilisations of Greece and Rome i ...
building, which may have been the public law court, and have been dated to the early fifth centuryBC. The inscription is part of ...
PAST CRIMES types of assault. Many of these may well have been victims of murder, their bodies thrown down the wells so that the ...
to which a further two may have been added later. These were inscribed onto bronze and set up in the Forum for all to read. Alth ...
PAST CRIMES was a drawback. In order to prevent slaves bringing false accusations against free citizens, Roman law dictated that ...
central basin and a small chapel, a possible bath suite, a storeroom and two further rooms. Roman law courts were divided into c ...
PAST CRIMES malicious intent, and that the items had actually gone missing, or had been misappropriated without consent. In assa ...
him, whipping him in all parts of his body until the blood ran, then sewing him into a leather sack along with a snake, a dog, a ...
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