THE faces of two 2,500-year-old male skulls were brought back to life through digital reconstructions.

The recreations offer a rare insight into what the early inhabitants of Tamil Nadu, in southern India , might have looked like, as well as their fascinating ancestries.

Indian researchers at Madurai Kamaraj University, in collaboration with Face Lab at Liverpool John Moores University, recreated the faces of two individuals from skulls discovered at the Kondegai burial site, reports BBC News .

The site is just 2.5 miles from Keeladi - an ancient settlement that was home to an urban civilisation dating back to 580 BC.

Archaeologists have excavated around 50 urns at Kondegai, containing bones, food grains and other daily necessities.

Now, researchers are extracting DNA from

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