The First Assassinated Man In History Was Killed By an Arrow 5300 Years Ago
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A new report published in The Journal of Royal Society's Interface has confirmed that the first assassinated man in history was killed by an arrow, shot into his back, 5,300 years ago. According to the paper's lead author Albert Zink:
The fact that we found some of the fibrin [a protein that is part of the blood clotting process] confirms that he didn't survive the arrow for a long period. It's good to have, because there were still some people [thinking] that maybe he could have survived the arrow shot for a few hours, a few days.
Zink, a biological anthropologist at the European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano, says that the arrow severed the man's arteries in such a way that it caused his death within minutes of contact. Ötzi, the name given to this Bronze Age human discovered frozen in the Alps between Austria and Italy, was believed believed to have died from a strike to the head.
The researchers, though, were able to find complete blood cells in Ötzi's body and around the arrow wound entrance using a new technique. First they found round objects using a light microscope. Their shape looked like red cells but they couldn't really tell what they really were. Then they used an atomic force microscope to create a three-dimensional model of the object. The result greatly surprised Zink and his team: they were complete red cells.
It was very surprising, because we didn't really expect to find compete red blood cells. We hoped to find maybe some remnants or shrunken red blood cells, but these are looking like a modern-day sample; the dimensions are the same.
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Yay science!
Now we just have to find the killer and bring him to justice.
Before anyone brings it up, and I know someone will, this does not mean the first assassination ever. It means, as it literally states, the earliest historic evidence found of an assassination taking place.
CIA did it
3288 BC was an inside job
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;35808425]Now we just have to find the killer and bring him to justice.[/QUOTE]
bringing ashes or a skeleton to justice makes alot of sense
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;35808425]Now we just have to find the killer and bring him to justice.[/QUOTE]
Quickly arrest Larry King
That's kinda cool from scientific point of view. From the one's who got shot probably not so much.
Also title bros
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;35808425]Now we just have to find the killer and bring him to justice.[/QUOTE]
Death penalty!!
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;35808543]Death penalty!![/QUOTE]
Life in prison
Seems like he served his sentence
Cold case.
[QUOTE=smurfy;35808440]CIA did it
3288 BC was an inside job[/QUOTE]
Oh my god
I lost it, thanks man
I remember seeing a documentary about this where they found the evidence that the guy had been shot with an arrow
Lies. That's obviously impossible if the Earth is only 5000 years old.
[QUOTE=just-a-boy;35808753]Lies. That's obviously impossible if the Earth is only 5000 years old.[/QUOTE]The assassination happened in space though.
[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;35808781]The assassination happened in space though.[/QUOTE]
The man was actually an ancient alien.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;35808808]The man was actually an ancient alien.[/QUOTE]
The assassin or the target?
I wonder what the assassin's motives were?
[QUOTE=bucketofshrimp;35808833]I wonder what the assassin's motives were?[/QUOTE]
that dick stole his bucket of shrimp
wait
"Bucketofshrimp"
IT was YOU!
[QUOTE=J!NX;35808843]that dick stole his bucket of shrimp
wait
"Bucketofshrimp"
IT was YOU![/QUOTE]
Yes, after I killed my victim and stole his bucket of shrimp some aliens abducted me and stuck a probe up my ass so I can live forever. You'll never catch me! I'm in fucking space!
[QUOTE=bucketofshrimp;35808931]Yes, after I killed my victim and stole his bucket of shrimp some aliens abducted me and stuck a probe up my ass so I can live forever. You'll never catch me! I'm in fucking space![/QUOTE]
They got internet there? Sweet.
Assassin's Creed 4 - The Bronze Age
[QUOTE=koeniginator;35808984]Assassin's Creed 4 - The Bronze Age[/QUOTE]
Still waiting for Caveman's Creed
I know about this guy and the whole assassination thing, watched a video on him in my archaeology class in college.
4 years ago.
[QUOTE=chipset;35808426]Before anyone brings it up, and I know someone will, this does not mean the first assassination ever. It means, as it literally states, the earliest historic evidence found of an assassination taking place.[/QUOTE]
I waiting for you to mentioned that shitty arrow to the knee joke.
When it said they had found a complete blood cell I jumped at the thought of using the DNA to resurrect him. Pretty sure that's not how it works, but it would be cool to see what we looked like that many years ago.
[QUOTE=ChaosUnleash;35833703]When it said they had found a complete blood cell I jumped at the thought of using the DNA to resurrect him. Pretty sure that's not how it works, but it would be cool to see what we looked like that many years ago.[/QUOTE]
They can't ressurect him but they can find his decendants.
Imagine that.
"Sorry Mrs. Müller, your grand grand grand grand grand.....grand grandfather was killed, it was murder."
Did that arrow somehow hit the kne-
No fuck no can't do it fuck no.
Science is frigin amazing now a days.
[QUOTE=crackberry;35835115]Science is frigin amazing now a days.[/QUOTE]
In a few years/decades we will think the science today was shit.
I doubt that it's the first assassination ever. The earliest known one, maybe, but not the first.
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