Solving History's Mysteries

"Our Knowledge of the past is full of holes," writes the author of Solving History's Mysteries. Forensic science, however, is helping to fill in some of those gaps. Using the same high-tech forensic tools and techniques that are used in criminal investigations, scientists and archaeologists are taking a new look at events ranging from royal murders to landmarks in American history. The death of Tutankhamen, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Spanish conquest of Peru, and the gruesome bog bodies of northern Europe are some of the historical mysteries explored in this volume. Solving History's Mysteries acknowledges that there are limits to what science can tell us about the past, but the emphasis is on the new insights that are gained-and the old questions that are answered-when history meets forensics. Book jacket.