Past Crimes. Archaeological and Historical Evidence for Ancient Misdeeds
PAST CRIMES prehistoric or ancient sites to be selected for execution places, due to the perception of their ancient power in th ...
as well as the postholes of a probable doublepost gallows (Figure 14). Some of the dead had been buried face down, two were kn ...
PAST CRIMES Wessex, who falsely claimed to support him. But Earl Godwin was actually backing Harold Harefoot, the new Danish kin ...
for DNA testing. Sadly for the legend, it turned out that it was not the skin of a rampaging Viking, but that of an ordinary cow ...
PAST CRIMES on Jomsborg in the Baltic. Even among other Vikings, they held the reputation of being the most brutal and horrifyin ...
to ensure the survival of one’s children in hard times, of which there were many. There is some evidence of slaves being forced ...
PAST CRIMES warlords were trying to seize Anglesey. The records say that 1,000 were murdered, and 2,000 taken away as slaves, du ...
hoard was hidden by a local worried about imminent Viking raids, or indeed was buried by a raider intending to come back for it. ...
PAST CRIMES troops ambushed. They found a collection of‘hags’who were speaking in a mysterious language and pouring a poisonous ...
famous caliph Haroun alRashid, from whose court came the stories of the One Thousand and One Nights.Closer examination of the c ...
PAST CRIMES directly connected with the sinking. One of the individuals was an adult man, the other a much younger adolescent or ...
was thought that Ulfberht was a Frankish swordsmith, working somewhere in the region of the Lower Rhine, but a recent study sugg ...
PAST CRIMES exiled Danish king Harald Klak Halfdansson, who had been buried with his murdered cupbearer and master of horse. Th ...
early church; it was a contract made between two people that could be blessed by the church if they wished. Nor was bastardy see ...
Plate 1. The Tarpeian Rock (Source: Lalupa/Wikimedia Commons) Plate 2. A criminal being savaged by wild beasts in the Roman aren ...
Plate 3. The ordeal by hot iron Plate 4. An‘Ulfberht’sword (Source: Martin Kraft/Tarana/Wikimedia Commons) ...
Plate 5. Medieval prisoner being taken to the lockup (after Soest ‘Nequambuch’, 14th century) ...
Plate 6.‘Market Scene with a pickpocket’by Louise Moillon, early 17th century Plate 7. Historic buildings at Tortuga–Dry Tortuga ...
Plate 8. A ticket for the hanging of Jonathan Wild Plate 9. Victorian policeman c.1900 (Source: WyrdLight.com/ Wikimedia Commons ...
Plate 10. The execution of Katherine Webster at Wandsworth Gaol (published in theIllustrated Police News1879) ...
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