Richard Neave (born c 1936)[1] is a British expert in forensic facial reconstruction.
He has used his skill in recreating faces from skulls in police forensic work and in producing images of historical figures.
[3] Neave's archaeological reconstructions include Philip II of Macedon[4] and Midas.
[5] In 2001, the television programme Son of God used one of three first-century Jewish skulls from a leading department of forensic science in Israel to depict Jesus in a new way.
Neave constructed a face using forensic anthropology which suggested that Jesus would have had a broad face and large nose, and differed significantly from the traditional depictions of Jesus in Renaissance art.