(ORDO NEWS) — Brazilian researchers have restored the appearance of the so-called. “Jericho skull”: the skull of a 40-year-old man who died almost 10,000 years ago in Jericho in what is now Palestine.
The Jericho Skull is one of seven artifacts found by English archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon in 1953.
It survived due to the fact that after the death of its owner, the skull was partially covered with plaster, and its eye sockets were covered with shells.
In 2016, scientists were already trying to reconstruct its appearance, but according to Brazilian computer graphics expert Cicero Moraes, his rendering was based on statistical data.
Moraes and his colleagues modeled the virtual environment and reconstructed the facial features using an anatomical deformation method that adjusts the tomographic structure of a living person to the data of the skull.
According to the British Museum, where the artifact is kept, the owner of the Jericho skull died with rotten, broken teeth and abscesses that must have caused him pain.
He also recovered from a broken nose and had his head permanently reshaped with bandages in early childhood. It is reported by “The Rambler”.
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