Christ of Patience
In 2014, Fanny Unikel and her colleagues at the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia were restoring a wooden statue of Jesus that came from a small town in Mexico when they discovered an amazing detail: The statue had real human teeth. [Read full story]
Common artform
The statue was one of several they restored from a little town outside Mexico City. Wooden statues like this are common throughout Mexico, and they often have real hair, glass eyes and teeth and nails from animal bone. [Read full story]
God's teeth!
But Unikel had never seen real human teeth in a statue before. The physical anthropologist on the team first discovered them on X-rays of the statue. [Read full story]
Mystery owner
It's not clear exactly how this statue came to get the teeth, but they were in good condition, with even the roots present. [Read full story]
Different body concept
Though it seems odd today, people more often donated body parts to religious institutions during this period of time. [Read full story]
Restorer and statue
Here, Fanny Unikel describing the new discovery. [Read full story]
