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Using DNA analysis and a 3D scan of the skull, the two labs collaborated to digitally reconstruct the face of the 19th-century man whose remains were discovered more than 30 years ago.
Can you find Dippy's nostrils? What feature does Diplodocus share with humans but few other dinosaurs? Rotate, zoom in and explore the features of this popular dinosaur. Dippy skull by NHM_Imaging on ...
For years, the battered 9,500-year-old Jericho Skull has been one of the British Museum’s most chilling exhibits – as well as its oldest portrait. Decorated with plaster in a Neolithic ritual ...
An Egyptian mummy’s head and face have been reconstructed with forensic science and 3D printing, offering scientists a tantalizing glimpse of the individual’s life and death. The mummified ...
They then carried out a facial approximation—a technique that uses the skull as a basis to reimagine what the face of an individual would have looked like in life. For the approximation, the ...
Using this information, they 3D-printed a copy of the teenager’s skull. On top of the 3D-printed skull, Nilsson placed pegs to indicate how thick the skin and muscle should be in particular places.
The skull was excavated from Dunfermline Abbey in Fife between 1818 and 1819. The king's facial structure was produced using a 3D replication process known as 'stereolithography'.
A picture shows the rebuilt skull and a physical reconstruction of the face and head, of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman, named Shanidar Z, after the cave in Iraqi Kurdistan where her skull ...
An international team of researchers has approximated the face of a woman whose 45,000-year-old remains were discovered more than 70 years ago. The severed skull of the Zlatý kůň woman — the ...
For years, the battered 9,500-year-old Jericho Skull has been one of the British Museum’s most chilling exhibits – as well as its oldest portrait. Decorated with plaster in a Neolithic ritual ...
At the British Museum, visitors can meet the man behind the man behind a 9,500-year-old plastered skull, thanks to an extraordinary reconstruction effort.