{"id":1952511,"date":"2023-06-20T22:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T02:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/researchers-reconstruct-face-of-anglo-saxon-teenage-girl-buried-with-rare-gold-cross\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T22:46:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T02:46:29","slug":"researchers-reconstruct-face-of-anglo-saxon-teenage-girl-buried-with-rare-gold-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/researchers-reconstruct-face-of-anglo-saxon-teenage-girl-buried-with-rare-gold-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers recreate face of Anglo-Saxon girl with unique gold cross."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fresearchers-reconstruct-face-of-anglo-saxon-teenage-girl-buried-with-rare-gold-cross%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1952511&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Face of Anglo-Saxon Teenage Girl Revealed<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Researchers from the University of Cambridge have unveiled the face of an Anglo-Saxon teenage girl who died over 1,300 years ago. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/people-pumping-water-has-changed-the-earths-center-of-gravity\/\" title=\"People pumping water has changed the Earth's center of gravity\">fascinating discovery<\/a> was made during a recent excavation in Trumpington, England. The girl, believed to be a member of the aristocracy or even of royal descent, was buried in a rare bed burial, one of only 18 found in the United Kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Using advanced skull analysis techniques, the researchers were able to reconstruct her face. The forensic artist, Hew Morrison, described the process as captivating, noting that her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crenshaw-issues-list-conservative-guide-to-the-culture-wars\/\" title=\"Crenshaw Issues List: \u2018Conservative Guide To The Culture Wars\u2019\">left eye<\/a> was slightly lower than her right eye, a distinct feature that would have been noticeable during her lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd0d Peering out for the first time in 1,300 years, the face of a mysterious teenage Anglo-Saxon aristocrat has been reconstructed more than a decade after she was found in an elaborate Christian grave.<\/p>\n<p>See more:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jI71l6WimN\">https:\/\/t.co\/jI71l6WimN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/62Q5EKcEtT\">pic.twitter.com\/62Q5EKcEtT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Telegraph (@Telegraph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Telegraph\/status\/1671092321297784833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although her hair and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/researchers-reconstruct-face-of-anglo-saxon-teenage-girl-buried-with-rare-gold-cross\/\" title=\"Researchers recreate face of Anglo-Saxon girl with unique gold cross.\">eye color remain uncertain<\/a> without DNA analysis, the reconstructed image provides a strong indication of her appearance. The University of Cambridge report explains that Morrison relied on skull measurements and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/past-to-life-researchers-reconstruct-face-of-anglo-saxon-teenage-girl-buried-with-rare-gold-cross\/\" title=\"\u2018Past To Life\u2019: Researchers Reconstruct Face Of Anglo-Saxon Teenage Girl Buried With Rare Gold Cross\">tissue depth data<\/a> for Caucasian females to create the lifelike representation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The burial, discovered a decade ago, has provided valuable insights into the girl&#8217;s status and religious beliefs. She was interred with an ornate gold and garnet cross, known as the &#8220;Trumpington Cross,&#8221; which suggests her early conversion to Christianity. This cross is comparable to the one found in the coffin of St. Cuthbert, a renowned saint in northern England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Further analysis of the girl&#8217;s bones and teeth revealed that she likely migrated from the Alps, possibly southern Germany, to England after the age of seven. The change in her diet, with a decrease in protein consumption before her death, indicates the challenges she faced in adapting to a new environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The reconstructed image of the girl, along with the Trumpington Cross and the decorative headboard of her burial bed, will be on display at the University of Cambridge&#8217;s exhibition, &#8220;Beneath Our Feet: Archaeology of the Cambridge Region,&#8221; from now until April 2024. This remarkable find brings the past to life and offers a glimpse into the fascinating world of Anglo-Saxon England.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the University of Cambridge have unveiled the reconstructed face of an Anglo-Saxon teenage girl who was buried in Trumpington, England over 1,300 years ago. This rare bed burial, one of just 18 in the UK, provides insight into the appearance of the 16-year-old girl from the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1530,"featured_media":1952512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[29244,8112,4665,6397,29246,8684,10891],"class_list":["post-1952511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-anglo-saxon","tag-cross","tag-girl","tag-gold","tag-recreate","tag-researchers","tag-unique"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1952512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}