FUN FINGERPRINT FACTS: Ancient Days
1. Fingerprints have been found on:
- · ancient Babylonian clay tablets, seals, and pottery.
- · the walls of Egyptian tombs
- · Minoan, Greek, and Chinese pottery
- · bricks and tiles from ancient Babylon and Rome.
2. Fingerprints were used as signatures in
ancient Babylon.
3. Chinese officials pressed their fingerprints
into the clay seals used to seal documents.
4. With the invention of paper in China, legal
contracts had handprints inked on the documents.
5. Before 851 BC Chinese merchants used
fingerprints to authenticate loans.
6. By 702 BC, Japan allowed divorce petitioners
to "sign" their petitions with a fingerprint.
7. During the reign of Babylonian king Hammurabi
(1792-1750 BC) law officials took the fingerprints of people arrested.
8. During China's Qin Dynasty officials took
handprints, footprints and fingerprints as evidence from a crime scene.
9. Around 330 AD handprints were used as
evidence in a trial for theft in China.
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