October
01
/ 2020
A team of archaeologists in England have forensically analyzed the mutilated skull of a young Anglo-Saxon woman revealing that her nose, lips and possibly her scalp had all been sliced off while she was still living. History books, and especially works of ancient law, are full of references to horrifically violent punishments for crimes, but a new study presents the earliest physical evidence of a person having had her nose and lips cut off. What’s more, the researchers also found evidence that she might have been scalped, left untreated - and banished, she wandered into the English countryside to die. A Remote, Lonely And Bloody Death Located 43 kilometers (26.7 miles) from Basingstoke in England’s county of Hampshire, the Oakridge
