The Science That's Bringing Back the Dead: Facial Reconstruction

Send us Fan Mail It's not perfect. It never will be. But it's getting remarkably close. When Egyptian mummy portraits have been compared with facial reconstructions of the same individuals, the similarities are often striking. The science works, and it's improving every year as our reference databases grow and our technologies advance. But why does this matter? Why should anyone care what some Neanderthal from 75,000 years ago looked like? Or an Anglo-Saxon girl from the 7th century? Or a "va...