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2005 BCE
technology helps solve autopsy mysteries
CT Scan is used to reveal the real cause of death of King Tut. He died due to a infection of the leg. -
306 BCE
306 B.C.
Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and medieval Europeans performed dissections for religious reasons or to learn anatomy -
Apr 13, 600
600
fingerprints were first used to identify the body -
Apr 13, 1200
europeans perserve bodies to make autopsys easier
Autopsies were done is Europe regularly that they started to preserve bodies better -
Jan 10, 1302
jan. 13. 1302
first forensic autopsies was done in Bologna to determine if a death being investigated was caused by fault or not -
Giovanni Morgagni
writes On the Seats and causes of Diseases explaining his experiences with Autopsies. -
1806
German chemist Valentin Ross developed a method of detecting arsenic in a victim's stomach, which lead to the advancing the investigation of poison deaths -
jan 1 1880
Rudolph Virchow wrote the standards of autopsies which are the standards are still used today -
1910
Victor Balthazard and Marcelle Lambert publish first study on hair, including microscopic studies from most animals. -
history
An autopsy is also known as a post-mortem examination, necropsy, or obduction. -
history
autopsy has been around for more than 100 years. -
history
The word autopsy is deprived from the greek autopsia, meaning seeing for one self. -
autopsy
An autopsy is done by a doctor called a pathologist who is an expert in examining body tissues and fluids -
Forensic Science
Most forensic science jobs require at least a bachelor's degree, which typically takes four years to complete.
