There are many ancient ruins in Scotland, England, and the local University of Dundee is particularly good at portrait restoration, these two strengths combined, resulting in Scots are very keen to restore the appearance of the ancients, recently, the University of Dundee scientists restored two ancients, one is a leper 500 years ago, one is a man who lacked chin 900 years ago.
If you want to restore the ancients, you must first dig out the ancients, and the restored ancients are dug up from under st. Gilles' in Edinburgh. Since 1980, the Scots have been digging holes under this church, digging more and more things, the more holes are bigger, and finally, archaeologists dug out 12 years and dug up 111 ancient corpses.
The two people who recovered this time are representative, and the leper was found on the top floor, a businesswoman who died in the 16th century, 500 years ago. The man with the missing chin is found in the lowest level, probably a farmer who died in the 12th century, 900 years ago.
Why restore the appearance of the ancients? Because Edinburgh City Council collaborated with the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at the University of Dundee, both sides wanted to know what their ancestors looked like, and what they didn't look like.
Karen Fleming, a member of the restoration team, said: "Being able to physically examine ancient remains is fascinating, and it provides us with a lot of interesting things to learn about the lives of our ancestors. Karen's implication is that putting our ancestors under a microscope will tell them whether they are tall, fat, and thin, handsome or ugly, which greatly satisfies our gossip heart.
John Lawson, an archaeologist at Edinburgh City Hall, said: "We are revisiting many old archaeological finds like this and we are very keen to put faces in the museum's collections. John's implication is simpler: restore the faces of the ancients, put them in the museum, and the tourists rub in, and the income rises greatly.
Of course, in addition to some personal ideas and hopes, archaeologists restore the ancients, the biggest goal is to restore ancient life, such as the restored lepers, because of their damaged bodies, the flesh on their bodies looks a little rotten, so they have been seriously discriminated against in history, and all lepers have to wear bells around their necks to warn others not to come closer. What always wears bells? dairy cattle. To level the status of man with that of a cow, the ancients did not attach importance to equality.
Another man from 900 years ago, he was restored because he was probably one of the first full residents of Edinburgh. The forensic doctor said the man was between the ages of 35 and 45 at the time of his death and was about 1.6 meters tall.
In the process of restoring him, the experts also had trouble because his jaw was missing, that is, he did not have a chin, and for the facial restoration experts, even if the skull was intact, but without the lower half of the face, the accurate reconstruction was much more difficult. In order to cover up the defect of not having a jaw, they finally decided to add a beard to the man, skipping the reconstruction of the jaw.
The restoration work at the University of Dundee is excellent, restoring the appearance of two ancient people, they know the appearance of their ancestors, we also understand some of the situation of ancient society, thank them for their work.
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