What Robert Burns Really Looked Like
To this day, the national poet of Scotland is still celebrated around the world. Researchers decided to create a facial reconstruction of the famous man if he were alive in this era. Don’t you think it’s quite spot on?
What A Medieval Maiden From Edinburgh Really Looked Like
Forensic experts discovered a group of more than 400 medieval children, women, and men at the burial ground of South Leith Parish Church in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2009, preparations were being carried out for the new train system of the country and excavators came across the bodies. The remains of this medieval woman was excavated in a communal grave, though the cause of death remains unclear. Scientists guess that the plague or another infectious disease did her in.