The Mary Rose

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2332936/Henry-VIII-s-lost-men-Faces-doomed-sailors-went-Mary-Rose-revealed-time-new-27m-maritime-museums-exhibition.html

A very interesting article along with photos of Henry VIII's 'Mary Rose'.

[jno]

it is, though I sometimes wonder about these facial reconstructions. How do they know who had a beard?

And the Mail might llike to check a dictionary to see what a canon really is.

[jno]

they could also tell me how to spell llllike.

[Mrsspagnoli57]

There was an article in the Times as well. Had forgotten just how long ago its discovery was. Some interesting facial reconstructions also-shame its so far away from me.

[wendilla]

I was on holiday in that area at the time and we went to see it when it was first on displace in the eighties.

[Mattk]

"I sometimes wonder about these facial reconstructions. "

Me too. I don't believe they are accurate at all. A skull doesn't show the shape/size of noses, lips or eyes for example.

I would like to see a programme where anonymous people have replicas of their skulls modelled to put this to the test.

[jno]

if I could get a replica of my skull...

[ChillDoubt]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/meet-kennewick-man.html

I remember once seeing a programme (Horizon or similar) that followed a similar process that involved a skeleton some 300 years old. If memory serves me it was was in the Derbyshire or Staffordshire area.
There were known to be living persons from the man's family still in the area. A forensic sculptor was given the task of making a face without seeing any pictures of those relatives and when finished, the similarities were striking.

[grasscarp]

I very much want to go to the exhibition. I was reading about it today in the Metro. Shall we have an Answerbank day out down there?

[Zeuhl]

Yes

the technique has been used successfully to match unidentified skeletons with missing people - a person working with the UK charity 'Missing' was a pioneer of this forensic application

[Zeuhl]

Sorry

the charity is more commonly known as Missing People

https://www.missingpeople.org.uk/