Gorm the Old’s bones are printed inwards a arrive at of colours (Photo: Marie Louise Jørkov)
For the commencement fourth dimension ever, bones from the famous Danish Viking king, Gorm the Old, convey been reconstructed too printed inwards 3D.
Gorm the Old was the commencement to telephone phone himself Rex of Denmark. He was too the commencement to purpose the mention ‘Denmark’ for the province he reigned over for decades until his expiry inwards 958 CE.
Even though the bones are damaged too parts of the skeleton are missing, beingness able to jibe pieces of i of Denmark’s greatest kings is a unique experience, says archeologist Adam Bak, curator at Kongernes Jelling, National Museum of Denmark, who facilitated the reconstruction.
“It’s a bully feeling to stand upwards alongside them inwards your hand, turning them over, too looking at them. From a pure scientific discipline communication perspective, it’s too therefore much improve to convey a ‘real’ os inwards your manus than to read a dry out text nigh a, historical person. I can’t deny that I’ve too played Hamlet alongside his skull,” says Bak.
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