![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/experts-recreate-likeness-of-medieval-warrior-killed-by-axe-blow-to-the-face/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/OFFPLAT_TRP_FACEAXE.jpg&description=THE likeness of a medieval warrior whose face was split open in one of medieval Europe's most savage battles can be seen for the first time in 660 years. Experts reconstructed the fighter's visage after his skull was recovered from a mass grave outside Visby on the Swedish island of Gotland. Scientists have recreated the face of a Medeival warrior killed after a blow from an axe to his faceCredit: Cicero Moraes-Pen News He was one of 1,800 Swedish rural militiamen killed by an invading Danish force in 1361Credit: Cicero Moraes-Pen News It was there in 1361 AD that a Danish force of some 2,500 men, many of them experienced mercenaries, perpetrated a massacre. They faced a rural militia of roughly 2,000 poorly-armed peasants – at least a third of whom were minors or the elderly, excavations suggest. In the slaughter that followed, the defenders suffered some 1,800 dead. Among them was the warrior, whose mouth was smashed by an axe, with additional wounds above his left eye and on the left cheekbone probably caused by a pole weapon. Now Brazilian graphics expert Cicero Moraes has brought his features to life by importing his skull into a digital interface. He said: 'Once the skull was ready, a series of soft tissue thickness markers were spread across the skull. "These markers, roughly speaking, indicate the skin boundaries in some regions of the face. "To complement the data, we imported a CT scan of a living donor and deformed the bones and soft tissue from the CT scan to match the face being approximated. "With the basic face defined, we finalised the approximation and generated the most scientific image, in shades of gray, with eyes closed and without hair." The skull itself yields an incomplete set of data, so some aspects – like the size of the nose, mouth and eyes – are projections based on statistical data. Meanwhile, matters like hair and skin tone are subjective. But the end result is an approximation of what the warrior would have looked like at his time of){kind=link}
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THE likeness of a medieval warrior whose face was split open in one of medieval Europe’s most savage battles can be seen for the first time in 660 years.
Experts reconstructed the fighter’s visage after his skull was recovered from a mass grave outside Visby on the Swedish island of Gotland.
It was there in 1361 AD that a Danish force of some 2,500 men, many of them experienced mercenaries, perpetrated a massacre.
They faced a rural militia of roughly 2,000 poorly-armed peasants – at least a third of whom were minors or the elderly, excavations suggest.