The History of Forensic Science

Law Enforcement has used forensic science for years to help solve puzzling crimes. But not to many people know just how long the art of forensic science has been around. For example evidence of fingerprints were found in paintings and prehistoric rock carvings made by humans.
The Chinese have probably used forensics much longer than most civilizations. For example back in the 700's they used fingerprints to find out the identity of documents and clay sculptures. What made this unusual was that there was no form of classification system back then. …