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Ancient Bog Girl’s Face Reconstructed

Posted by admin on Feb 3, 2011

“Moora” stares across millennia, thanks to a digital reconstruction based on the Iron Age girl’s fragmented skull—one of several interpretations released January 20.

Along with the nearly complete corpse of the teenager, peat bog workers found her 2,600-year-old skull bones—mangled by peat-harvesting machinery—in Germany’s Lower Saxony state (map) in 2000.

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