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The remains of two victims of the Vesuvius eruption are analysed to provide data that are then analysed to allow their faces to be reconstructed. Margaret Mountford meets an expert in anatomical facial reconstruction who uses X-rays of the skull of a male victim from Pompeii to reconstruct his skull shape. The X-rays pass through the plaster of Paris more easily than through bone.

A female victim from Herculaneum, known as Bella Donna is also analysed, but because her actual skull is available, a 3D scanner can be used instead of X-rays. The large eye sockets indicate her sex and the high degree of facial symmetry indicate her beauty. Layers of wax are built up on the reconstructed skulls to represent muscle and skin, and then hair and clothes are added using information from anthropologists and archaeologists. The results are impressive.