USS Monitor crewmembers' faces reconstructed
Saturday, March 3, 2012 - 14:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
When the turret of the USS Monitor was raised from the ocean bottom, two skeletons and the tattered remnants of their uniforms were discovered in the rusted hulk of the Union Civil War ironclad, mute and nameless witnesses to the cost of war. A rubber comb was found by one of the remains, a ring was on a finger of the other. Now, thanks to forensic reconstruction, the two have faces.