The brief history of Fingerprints
Around 200 BC, fingerprints were used to confirm contract papers. In 451 BC, an Arab merchant named Abu Zayed Hasan took a fingerprint to hand over loan in China. King Hamburabi of Babylon declared that "law enforcement officers will be able to take the fingerprints of the arrested convicts". Fingerprints were collected at the crime scene in the 1st Qin Dynasty of China. Historian Kia Kung-yen states that handprints may be the best evidence for authentications and identifications. In his book Jami-i-al-Tariki, Rashid-Aldin Hamadani, a well-known Iranian doctor, states: Chinese rules for taking fingerprints is outstanding and up to date. Marcelo Malfizi, a professor of anatomy at the University of Biology in 1686 and Johann Christoph Arunds-Meyer, a German anatomist in 1788, succeeded in researching the 1st fingerprint in Europe. He wants to prove that fingerprints are unique and there is no similarity between each other's fingerprints. In 1880, Henry Fold, a Scottish pl...