Summary

A woman who lived in China about 700 years ago had her nose cleanly sliced off, perhaps as punishment for stealing horses or cattle. She lived for at least a few years after the incident and may have worn a prosthetic nose over the hole. The archaeologists who found her remains, buried face down in a cemetery, think this may be the only known physical evidence of punitive nasal amputation from ancient China.

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