<P> Fingerprints were used as signatures in ancient Babylon in the second millennium BCE . In order to protect against forgery , parties to a legal contract would impress their fingerprints into a clay tablet on which the contract had been written.In Ancient India some texts called Naadi were written by a Rishi called Agastya who had a highly developed consciousness , this text is said to predict the past , present and the future lives of all humans from thumb print. the Naadi palm leaves are located based on the thumb impressions ( right for men , left for women ) . This ancient Indian system of astrology was called Nadi astrology.By 246 BCE , Chinese officials were impressing their fingerprints into the clay seals used to seal documents . With the advent of silk and paper in China , parties to a legal contract impressed their handprints on the document . Sometime before 851 CE , an Arab merchant in China , Abu Zayd Hasan , witnessed Chinese merchants using fingerprints to authenticate loans . By 702 , Japan allowed illiterate petitioners seeking a divorce to `` sign '' their petitions with a fingerprint . </P>
<P> Fingerprints were used as signatures in ancient Babylon in the second millennium BCE . In order to protect against forgery , parties to a legal contract would impress their fingerprints into a clay tablet on which the contract had been written.In Ancient India some texts called Naadi were written by a Rishi called Agastya who had a highly developed consciousness , this text is said to predict the past , present and the future lives of all humans from thumb print. the Naadi palm leaves are located based on the thumb impressions ( right for men , left for women ) . This ancient Indian system of astrology was called Nadi astrology.By 246 BCE , Chinese officials were impressing their fingerprints into the clay seals used to seal documents . With the advent of silk and paper in China , parties to a legal contract impressed their handprints on the document . Sometime before 851 CE , an Arab merchant in China , Abu Zayd Hasan , witnessed Chinese merchants using fingerprints to authenticate loans . By 702 , Japan allowed illiterate petitioners seeking a divorce to `` sign '' their petitions with a fingerprint . </P>
when did the chinese first use fingerprint as identification
when did the chinese first use fingerprint as identification
second millennium BCE
second millennium BCE