title: An end to a rumour.
abstract: Mardin, is a city in the southeastern part of Turkey where people from different cultures and religions have been living together peacefully for centuries. The province hosted many valuable historical constructions representing different civilizations. Kasimiye Medresse, one of the most important educational centers of its times, has a sacred value for people in Mardin. The reason is that the stain on the wall of Kasimiye Medresse is considered to be Sultan Kasim's blood. Our study aims to analyze if the stain in question is blood. Serological tests are performed by using "Kastle-Meyer" and "Luminol" reactives on the scrapped samples taken from stained and unstained parts of the wall. At the end of the analysis, the stain is turned out to be a dye made of herbal roots ending the rumour of centuries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ankara, Turkey. aysimtug@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Ayşim
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tuğ
authors.forename: Yeşim Doğan
authors.initials: YD
authors.lastname: Alakoç
authors.forename: I Hamit
authors.initials: IH
authors.lastname: Hanci
mesh_terms: D001801:Blood Stains; D004396:Coloring Agents / Q000737:chemistry*; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D005495:Folklore; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D031564:Lawsonia Plant; D018517:Plant Roots / Q000737:chemistry*; D014421:Turkey
chemical_list: D004396:Coloring Agents