Face of Medieval Teen Girl in Rare Christian Burial Finally Revealed
The young woman, who was buried in England around 1,300 years ago with an extremely rare gold cross, is thought to have been an early Christian convert.
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The young woman, who was buried in England around 1,300 years ago with an extremely rare gold cross, is thought to have been an early Christian convert.
The girl's remains was found in the Cambridgeshire village of Trumpington more than a decade ago. Now, scientists have created an image of what she would have looked like.
One October morning in 2004, a woman took the lift to the 21st floor of an office block in north-west London, bought a coffee in the cafe there – then opened a window and jumped out. No one knew who she was. Do they now?
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The woman was found at a scenic beach spot at Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, on January 13 1993 by an off-duty coastguard.