The Jericho Skull

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Is the plaster face on this skull modeled after a real person? Is it one of the world’s oldest portraits?

 

Video from the British Museum

Cite this page as: The British Museum, "The Jericho Skull," in Smarthistory, March 30, 2018, accessed April 26, 2024, https://smarthistory.org/jericho-skull/.