TOTTORI—The face of a Japanese woman who lived around 1,800 years ago and wouldn't look out of place today has been re-created in a stunning visualization. A bust of the long-deceased woman ...

King is Professor of New Testament Studies and the History of Ancient Christianity at Harvard ... Chief among these is Mary Magdalene, a woman infamous in Western Christianity as an adulteress ...

The remarkable project to recreate her face was led by Bournemouth bio-archaeologist Amber Manning, who used cutting-edge 3D technology and forensic techniques to give the ancient woman a face for ...

The bones of a man aged 50 or older were unearthed there. Nuclear DNA was sampled from the ancient woman’s teeth for comparison with the man’s remains. The study found that 96 to 97 percent of ...