Scientists reconstructed the face of ‘Conquest Man’, a 1,000-year-old skeleton buried just 13 years after the Norman Conquest
- Facial Construction by Face Lab, Liverpool John Moores University (Image: )More than 1,000 years after his death, a man who lived through the upheaval of the Norman Conquest has been given a face.
- Known as “Conquest Man”, he was buried at St Peter’s Church in Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, around 1079, just 13 years after William the Conqueror’s victory at Hastings.
- New research has combined osteological analysis, ancient DNA, isotope testing and digital facial reconstruction to investigate who he may have been and where he came from.
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- Facial Construction by Face Lab, Liverpool John Moores University (Image: )More than 1,000 years after his death, a man who lived through the upheaval of the Norman Conquest has been given a face.
- Known as “Conquest Man”, he was buried at St Peter’s Church in Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, around 1079, just 13 years after William the Conqueror’s victory at Hastings.
- New research has combined osteological analysis, ancient DNA, isotope testing and digital facial reconstruction to investigate who he may have been and where he came from.
Sources: Times of India