There is nothing more condemn-able in this world than murder, regardless upon whom this crime has been committed. While stealing and any other similar.
There is nothing more condemn-able in this world than murder, regardless upon whom this crime has been committed. While stealing and any other similar crimes can be committed without actually inflicting deadly injuries to people, when it comes to killing someone, things take a whole different turn.
The fact is that in the past people have committed thousands of murders and back then, there were no detectives like the ones you could hire nowadays, which meant that criminals were very hard to identify and capture. As a result, a lot of murders have been committed and the culprits have never gotten to be discovered even now.
10. Georgie
Georgie is a child of around ten years old that was discovered under the barracks at Vindolanda, which is a Roman fort that near Hadrian’s wall in the UK. When it was dug up, people believed he was a dog, but then they realized he was actually buried.
However, Roman law stated that the dead need to be cremated, so this was dubbed as a murder with the probable cause of death being a blow to the head. After analyzing the tooth enamel, specialists discovered that Georgie was from the Mediterranean, supposedly a Roman slave or a child of one of the soldiers.
9. La Brea Woman
The La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles describes a series of more than one hundred asphalt pools that are around for more than forty thousand years and during this time, they have claimed many victims, including wolves, imperial mammoths, saber tooth tigers and the La Brea woman.
The woman was found in the tar in nineteen fourteen and experts estimate she has been lying like that for more than 9 millennia. However, even though you’d initially think she was killed by the tar pits, evidence shows that she had a broken jaw and a fractured skull. Also, only a piece of her skull was found, which suggests that the other part was buried somewhere else.
8. Clonycavan Man
Around a decade ago, someone who was working on a bog cutting machine unearthed a murder victim from more than 23 hundred years ago, victim that was soon dubbed the Clonycavan Man. According to the experts, he had a smashed nose, and received one blow to the chest and 3 axe blows to his head.
Next, before he was dumped, his nipples have been cut. Based on this information, experts have determined that he was the victim of a ritual murder and in ancient Ireland, people believed that those who suck on the nipples of a king showed a sign of submission.
7. Shanidar Three
Archeologists in Iraq have unearthed a Neanderthal murder victim a few years ago that seemed to be an individual in his late forties and early fifties. The archaeologists proceeded with testing the Paleolithic weapons and soon enough they have found out that the individual was killed with the throwing of a spear that pierced his skull.
However, even though Neanderthals back then had long spears, they didn’t have projective technology, so the prime suspect for the murder was a modern human. After careful analysis, it seems that modern humans used to cannib alize Neanderthals and they considered their tongues a delicacy. This sounds as strange as it sounds disgusting.
6. The Raid At Cancuen
After many excavations were made in the city of Cancuen, which is an ancient Mayan territory, archeologists found more than fifty skeletons in shallow graves and sacred pools that were abandoned for many years. It seems that everyone here (children, women and men) was killed with axe blows and lance thrusts by unknown criminals. It was possibly a well organized raid that was aimed at destroying the entire city.
5. The Moche Slaughter
In N. Peru’s arid lowlands, archeologists dug up a grave complex that contained more than one hundred victims that seemed to have suffered very brutal deaths. After carefully analyzing the bones, experts realized that they were decapitated, drained of blood and skinned alive.
After that, they were left out to die and most probably got devoured by vultures. As for the victims, they were actually young men. If you know a bit of history, then you’re aware that the Moche people actually lived before the Incas and they were very well known for their advanced irrigation techniques and their lands which were much more fertile than those of other civilizations.
As for the murders, it’s believed they happened as a result of the gruesome brutality this civilization was known for, since they would often kill the weak Moches and only leave the strong ones to live.
4. Swedish Pompeii
There is no ash and fire involved in this murder story, since it’s violence that caused all of it. So far, it seems that around ten skeletons have been dug up and scattered remains of many hundreds of other victims.
Specialists think that the fort in which these people lived was ambushed and everyone was massacred. Since in Scandinavia back then dead people had to be buried, the fact that these people were left to rot suggests murder. Even more, the murderers didn’t take any jewelry, so they were in just for the kill.
3. The Late Sons
In ’64, the remains of 3 men were discovered by a farmer in Sacramento River. Later on it was determined that they died around fifteen hundred years ago and their bodies all showed signs of severe physical trauma. While 2 of them had obsidian blades lodged into their spines, one of the bodies had 7 arrows in his ribs. The explanation? Around 550 years ago, Central California was nothing but a warzone and that is how these unfortunate people died.
2. The Genocide Of Gallina
This genocide is made worse by the fact that specialists found the crushed skull of a 2 year old child. Amongst the victims were also 6 other skeletons that belonged to men and women.
The necks of some of the victims seem to have been crushed with such a massive force that the skulls caved into the rib cage. It is believed that these people have all been a victim of homicide and given the fact that a child was involved makes things even more gruesome.
1. The Cannibals Of Herxheim
A skeleton of a woman from 5,800 B.C. is displayed at a museum in the town of Vratsa, some 120 km (75 miles) north of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, January 11, 2006.
A team of Bulgarian archaeologists led by Georgi Ganetsovski , discovered the skeleton last summer in the excavation works of a neolithic tomb near the Bulgarian village of Ohoden. The woman was 25-30 years old and was 153 cm tall.