Morbid history: Tobias Grey uncovers interesting work in France that brings the latest forensic technology to the aid of historical mysteries.(FRONTLINE)

History Today | August 1, 2006| | Copyright

SLEUTHS COME IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES. Dr Philippe Charlier is tall, fresh faced and fashionably plimsolled. He also has a well developed sense of humour, judging by the wallpaper on his computer screen. What at looked to my uneducated eye like a black and white ram cloud turned out to be an enlarged imprint of a spermatozoid found on the tooth of a Roman travelling back from imperial Rome. 'The ancient Romans were very keen on bulls' testicles,' deadpanned the French doctor.

Such attention to historical detail comes naturally to Charlier who at the relatively young ...

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