In February 2018, Dr. Caroline Wilkinson, forensic anthropologist and Director of the Faces Lab at Liverpool John Moores University, revealed her facial reconstruction of ‘Bella in the Wych Elm‘. The digital reconstruction shows the smiling face of a young woman… Read More ›
Last month National Geographic reported that biological anthropologist Philippe Charlier, from the University of Versailles, and forensic artist Philippe Froesch collaborated on a project to create a 3D computer reconstruction of a face that might have belonged to Mary Magdalene. … Read More ›
I used to associate decomposing human remains strapped to metal racks with medieval European torture devices. I guess I underestimated the creative and innovative ways in which modern murderers torture and/or dispose of their victim’s bodies. That changed when I read an extract from… Read More ›
Outside of St. Thomas’s Church in Leipzig, Germany stands an eight-foot tall bronze statue of Johann Sebastian Bach, the legendary 17th century composer, which was built to honor the man who is entombed inside. The monument is the result of… Read More ›
Jane McCrea was a Loyalist who was killed and scalped during the American Revolution on the way to meet her fiancé in a British camp. According to the most widely accepted account of her death, Jane was murdered by Wyandot… Read More ›
Pirates were larger than life characters known for their clothing, the way they talk, their treasure, and their flags. Their adventures have been immortalized in folktales that recount debauchery and adventure on the high seas. But a pirate’s life wasn’t… Read More ›
Jericho was founded around 9600 BCE and developed into a large settlement with a population of two thousand by about 7000 BCE. During the Neolithic period (abt 10000 BCE to 4500 BCE), the people of Jericho had a mortuary practice of… Read More ›
The oldest patient at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) does not lie in one of the beds in a patient room, rather he’s been in a display case in its original surgical amphitheater for more than a century. This surgical amphitheater… Read More ›
Simon of Sudbury (ca. 1316-14 June 1381) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1375 to 1380, crowned King Richard II in 1377, and was the Lord Chancellor of England from 1380-1381. He became extremely unpopular because the lower classes believed he… Read More ›
Frederick Bailey Deeming (1853-1892) was an English murderer, conman, thief, and bigamist who was executed in Australia in 1892. Deeming was convicted of murdering his first wife Marie, and his four children, in England in July of 1891, as well… Read More ›
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