From The Lab: How researchers reconstructed the face of a Napoleonic soldier

The face of a young Napoleonic soldier was digitally reconstructed based on this kull. © RFI

A multidisciplinary research team from Sorbonne University has digitally resconstructed the face of a young Napoleonic soldier who died in March 1806.

The team comprised researchers from the Sorbonne University Library and the Institute of Computing and Data Sciences (ISCD). They conducted the facial reconstruction based on a skull preserved in the Dupuytren pathological anatomy collections.