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World Service,06 Jun 2023,9 mins

Facial reconstruction: From mummy to murder

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In 1975, British forensic artist Richard Neave used a pile of modelling clay, two prosthetic eyes and a woman鈥檚 wig to reconstruct the face of an Egyptian mummy. It was to be the start of a 40-year career recreating the faces of the dead using the pioneering 鈥楳anchester technique鈥� that he invented. And as his reputation spread worldwide, the police came calling. They needed Richard鈥檚 skills to help catch a killer, as he told Jane Wilkinson. (Photo: Richard Neave in 2012. Credit: Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)

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