A man who was mysteriously decapitated nearly 2,000 years ago has been brought back to life through a remarkable facial reconstruction.
Experts used his skull to create a strikingly lifelike image of the individual, whose remains were discovered near a Roman military fort in Scotland.
The man lived during the Roman occupation of Britain and is thought to have died between AD 142 and 165.
Researchers from National Museums Scotland, who worked with cranial anthropologist Dr Christopher Rynn to make the reconstruction, believe he was around 50 years old when he died.
But while they have uncovered what he may have looked like, the
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