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Jan 5, 2017 · January 5, 2017. •6 min read. Researchers have reverse-engineered the ancient ritual practice that created one of the British Museum's most important artifacts— the Jericho Skull —revealing the...
Jan 9, 2023 · The 9,000-year-old Jericho Skull now has a new face, thanks to the latest reconstruction techniques. The latest research gives a new face to the most famous of the plaster-covered skulls...
Jan 11, 2023 · Around 7000 B.C.E., residents of Jericho, a settlement in what is now the West Bank, transformed seven skulls into sculptures, adorning the bones with plaster and paint and covering the...
- Meilan Solly
Jan 10, 2023 · The face of the famous plastered Jericho Skull, which was found in the Palestinian city of Jericho in 1953, has been fully recreated via 3D-imaging technology, revealing exactly what the man to whom the skull belonged looked like when he walked the earth 9,000 years ago.
- Nathan Falde
Jan 6, 2017 · The reconstruction is based on the Jericho Skull, discovered by British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon in 1953. The skull is believed to have been covered in plaster during a Neolithic ceremony.
Dec 8, 2016 · Archaeologists at the British Museum have accurately reconstructed the face of a man who lived 9,500 years ago in the ancient city of Jericho, allowing us to actually see what he looked like for the first time.
Jan 17, 2017 · The final reconstruction of the person portrayed in Jericho Skull. © The Trustees of the British Museum. Photo by RN-DS partnership. The face of a man that lived and died over 9,500 years ago can now be seen for the first time since his plaster likeness was created in ancient Jericho.
