A slave was brutally crucified in Roman Britain 1,700 years ago. Now, his face has been brought back to life.

A facial approximation of a Roman man. .

In 2017, archaeologists in England found the ancient skeleton of a man with a nail hammered through his heel. Further analysis revealed he was a Roman slave who had been brutally crucified during the third or fourth century A.D.

Now, a new digital facial approximation presented as part of a BBC Four program offers a first glimpse at what he may have looked like in life, according to the BBC.