Give a thought, when we look on at facial reconstructions connected to historic articles, from a skull we are led to believe that the face that is put on it layer by layer will turn out to be a face from the past, but whose face.!
This face is it real, did this person this face is supposed to represent once live! If so then where is their soul, we cannot bring that back can we?
What is this face supposed to represent, do we need to look back into the past in this way, in the Viking centre in York, there is a reconstructed face based on the skull of a supposed Viking found during excavations, is this really what the Vikings looked like!
Its possible that perhaps this was not a Viking, could have been an Anglo Saxon person, or one of many others living in the area at this time. But we are told this is a Viking, well think again, perhaps yes, perhaps no, don’t believe all that you see, it suits the centre to call him Viking, but that is not to say that this centre is not good, it is extremely well planned and laid out, and very informative. Well worth a visit, its just that sometimes reconstructions do not jell right, and this is one time that perhaps it would have been better not to have reconstructed this skull, better to have used just a model
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