Ancient faces brought to life

It has always been Nguyen Van Viet’s dream to recreate the faces, and lives, of ancient people. After years of study abroad and hard work, Viet and his colleagues finally have a place in the sun with the recent Dong Xa excavation, which revealed a tomb with 20 2,000-year-old skeletons from three different races. Le Huong reports.

Carefully laying a plastic mould over a skull fragment of a girl who lived 2,000 years ago, archaeologist Nguyen Van Viet is satisfied with the half-finished portrait of the primitive 17-year-old woman.

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