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Digs & Discoveries March/April 2017

(Top: © The Trustees of the British Museum; Above: © The Trustees of the British Museum. Photo by RN-DS partnership)
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(Top: © The Trustees of the British Museum; Above: © The Trustees of the British Museum. Photo by RN-DS partnership)

Forensic experts have reconstructed the face of a man who lived around 9,500 years ago in Jericho, near the Jordan River in the West Bank. The reconstruction was based on a micro-CT scan of his skull, which had been covered in plaster and has clamshells for eyes. Alexandra Fletcher of the British Museum, where the skull is housed, believes it and others like it were created a

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