A face from the past: Restoring a mummy

How technology and forensics restored the face of a mummified Egyptian woman

[@user-vh7ks8px3s]

I'd like to have my own skull scanned and printed and then reconstructed to see how similar the end result would be to the real deal

[@haydencook682]

For real...oddly enough I had that conversation with someone last night lol I said why don't we scan someone we have actual images of and see how close we are.

[@skittles4762]

Same bro

[@fbrm3621]

watch the documentary from new york times or somthing, where sculptors reconstruct people who died and they find out who they were and how similar they were to their real photos etc.

[@themississippicottage9395]

Same thought. Or a more recent person of whom you have a photo To see how accurate it really is.

[@ProjectCreativityGuy96]

That's an idea for future archaeologists! ;)

[@elmasry4173]

Some modern Egyptian girls carry the same beautiful eyes and face features

[@debbiedavis5346]

Elmasry her eyes are fake

[@gazzaboo8461]

Modern Egyptians are mostly Arabs from further east and nothing to do with ancient Egyptians.

[@littlelamb7163]

Yes they are fake, but the shape of them show she would have had beautiful eyes

[@iiwiiproductions2812]

@@debbiedavis5346 lol

[@seanmc7128]

@@debbiedavis5346 you mean she's like a modern woman?

[@midnytblossom102]

Shes beautiful

[@seanmc7128]

And doesn't look a day over 1,999

[@evamz9584]

seanmc 71 lol😂

[@bleedinghearts4768]

@@seanmc7128 Underrated comment

[@ProjectCreativityGuy96]

@@seanmc7128 *People:* Sorry, i only date older women. *Archaeologists:* Here's a great dating site for you, dating women who are 2,000 years old! :D *People:* .... **Slowly Walks Away**

[@bethcox1283]

midnytblossom102 ...bruh

[@breX351]

The present day Egyptian may not be a representative for the ancient Egyptian. There were so many wars and migration of people across Africa, middle East Asia and Europe-unless we deny this fact.

[@juliemcneely-kirwan9314]

I wondered about that, too. Populations can change radically over 2,000 years.

[@hollymoore2517]

Exactly. She may not be of pure Egyptian heritage. Very true. She is very pretty though.

[@centurioncoles6177]

@@juliemcneely-kirwan9314 pharohs are like 3000 years ago. 2000 years ago emperors of Egypt were Greek

[@Madison-iw8ix]

Sadly, it's the closest thing we can get nowadays.

[@standingfortruth4043]

Actually it's pretty accurate. www.google.it/amp/s/www.thevintagenews.com/2019/01/08/egyptian-portraits/amp/

[@sphynx1012]

Her mummy is known as "the strong one" as well. Beautiful and powerful. I recommend the documentary on identifying her remains.

[@shanecarubbi7864]

@Chuck Robinson That's a good observation lol

[@ilenebillingsley7516]

@Chuck Robinson wow your stupid!

[@risinj]

Is there really a documentary about her? Do you have a link?

[@liz3424]

@Chuck Robinson an isnt it astounding that this woman could take a wrapped skull with bad teeth an give her a face an a look! Marvelous job👏👏👏👏❤

[@evamishchenko9986]

What is that documentary called? I would like to watch

[@wht-rabt-obj]

She is gorgeous.

[@michelehood8837]

She’s so beautiful

[@winnievanorden1]

you totally did her justice. She's beautiful

[@ramz3599]

.... imagine this happens to ur dead body in 2000 years ....

[@JeevesReturns]

You finally get a CT scan?

[@muglymae7408]

sike luck they’ll probably resurrect us as clones and force us to unknowingly repeat our lives so they will know exactly how we lived and died

[@berry1057]

i'd feel bad for the person who had to use all that clay on my forehead

[@seanmc7128]

I'd be like where's the rest of my body you idiots?!

[@Dee8Bee]

sike luck for me it’s kinda hard to imagine....because I’ll be cremated. But who knows, by then they probably can ask my soul or reincarnated self who I looked back then.

[@carolhankins5896]

She is beautiful

[@lopinamadamgazarina8223]

Am egyptian she looks like lots of egyptian girl the same skin same eyes and nose

[@ironsnowflake1076]

Just imagine what she would think of all this technology 💮

[@58landman]

Specialists are always reconstructing faces from the long deceased but I wonder how accurate they are. I'm curious to know if there have been any blind reconstructions where an artist, who has never seen the decedent, reconstructs their faces and then has his work compared to an actual photograph of the deceased?

[@spatrk6634]

because they have a skull. and muscles and skin goes in particular places on that skull places like nose and ears would be hardest to accuretly reconstruct because you lack cartlidge

[@bondjames-bond7664]

There's a ten percent accuracy I guess .... It's very difficult to recreate someone's face only by a skull ....

[@SafetySpooon]

I have always wanted to see 2 entirely different/deparate artists work on the same skull, & see how well their results match.

[@lauratreasures3816]

There have been some skulls where they use this process to reconstruct what they may have looked like and later when the human remains were finally identified (matched to a missing person and it confirmed by DNA) they have been able to compare photos of the person when they were alive to the reconstruction. I wish I could remember where I saw some examples. I am on some facebook groups about missing persons as well as unidentified remains. I was doing some research online when I stumbled across some examples.

[@unatwomey7112]

See Richard iii versus his portrait.

[@am6969rr]

yes this is egyption face

[@3PercentNeanderhal]

It's a beautiful face. We owe so much of who are to these ancient people. Without Egypt and Sumer where would we be?

[@alonda35]

That's the modern Egyptian face as in "now" Sir. Thank you.

[@jaydavis8394]

She was completely beautiful.

[@armandosabre4111]

@@alonda35 Hamtics, Hicsos, Nubyans , Semitic Assyrians, Persians, Greeks... The Egypt along the Roman conquest was a higly mixed society ! Even 5,000 years before today Egypt was an empire. What empire in History was homogenious in Ethnicity? Hugs.

[@AlphaMaverick1111]

@@alexwilson9530 That is a total myth. Genetic evidence disproves your claims. Modern Day Egyptians are descendents of ancient Egyptians.

[@rockofagesusa7942]

I’d like to see how close they could get to being accurate to someone they’ve never seen, and after they get finished show a photo of the person ..I doubt it would even be close, but then again they could be spot on .

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

I've seen that done, and they quite close.

[@joanurb8015]

There is actually a documentary about a Thailander woman that was killed by her American husband. Her skull we're found accidentally in wooded area they reconstructed her face and put it on a television news and her friends recognized her face and they were able to put her husband to prison for murdering her. Her husband told her friends that she had left him and went back home to Thailand but was actually killed by him. The reconstructed face actually looks very similar.

[@yoriyasuhiro6678]

Mate it's called modern science, I mean no disrespect. In science it has to work every single time and failure is never an option. Therefore, I've no doubt in science whatsoever and it's indeed spot on.

[@robertg786]

I've seen some of these forensic reconstructions before and when compared to the real person they don't resemble them that much. Its all in the forensic artist's head.

[@emilywilson9964]

Robert G that’s not always true. There is a forensic reconstruction project going on in Canada using the skulls of Jane and John Does, and the busts created from those have been used to identify missing people and get the remains returned to the family. Sure, things like the way the hair is worn and even sometimes eye color are up for interpretation, but the bones don’t lie.

[@tiffmonique7154]

Agreed

[@juandavidrestrepoduran6007]

Robert G it never pretends to be 100% accurate but it tries to be as accurate as scientifically possible. The reason being, we can reconstruct the muscular structure and so on, but there are things that the bones may not tell us, if the bones don’t have dna that hasn’t been contaminated, or worse, no longer have dna, things like the color of the skin, the eyes, the hair, the structure of the hair, and so on, may not be possible to reconstruct at all, which leaves us in the territory of guessing. Plus, tattoos, scars that didn’t leave hints on the bone, amongst other things, won’t be present in the reconstruction.Body constitution presents us with the same case, if there’s no way to tell if this person was strong, fat, skinny, etc... it won’t be 100% accurate, but it’ll be accurate enough that we may be able to recognize the deceased if we brought it back to life. Otherwise police departments wouldn’t spend money in the forensic artists that use clay or digital tools to help them solve cases about unidentifiable remains. It’s not it their heads BTW, artistic license isn’t allowed and the features that can’t be established by literal evidence are established by the probability of occurrence based on the facts they do have of the body, eg: there’s no way to tell the color of skin, eyes, and hair of the reconstructed person I’m doing, but based on his (let’s say this one is a male) bone structure, I know this one was a male of European descent, and I’m in the US. It’s likely this person is of Germanic descent, therefore it’s likely that he was blond with blue eyes/light eyes and with pale skin (this last one I can be sure due to the established ethnic origin of the bones). It’s likely that I’m not too far from the truth.

[@EPUEPUEPUEPU]

Loking at the skull alone you can see her nose should be much wider.

[@bluelie1405]

@@emilywilson9964 did you watch a video on KZbin talking about it? I think ik what you're talking about

[@user-by6ik8vn2f]

Ancient Egyptians: rest in peace. Historians: I don't think so.

[@kitross3251]

Amazing! I love these... and also, hey Dr. Jeffries ❤️

[@PeaceDayCortez]

Beautiful! I love watching reconstructions! Amazing work

[@mahmoudalsenbkhty4560]

Thanks for your great works. Its fantastic

[@candya1040]

That’s amazing!! I have always had an interests in forensics!

[@1canseeu]

You did a great job! She is beautiful!

[@KamranSKhan]

she was very beautiful wow.

[@michellerenee5028]

Beautiful. Thank you

[@mmdaisylover64]

I find this so fascinating!

[@jpx1508]

While there are a number of attempted "reconstructions" of Hatshepsut's face, this is the only one forensically obtained directly from authorized access to Hatshepsut's skull and MRI's, and is authoritative. Remarkably, it is also the most attractive to modern sensibilities.

[@ossiemac]

I love to see reconstructions, this one is amazing.

[@MohamedElsayed-mp8gr]

Amazing!

[@vernlala8647]

Wow! From your reconstruction, she was a beautiful woman.

[@rhyfelwrDuw]

Fascinating video!

[@da_winter]

Thanks for your great works. Its fantastic - try to know antiquity. I am biophysic and dream of this job. Do everything for that

[@revelgirl1742]

Beautiful work.

[@RachelBrowergalilei]

Beautiful!

[@jacquelinelayne7702]

Beautiful work

[@bondjames-bond7664]

Beautiful .....

[@noysandoval473]

Awesome💖

[@prairrie]

She's so beautiful 🙏💜

[@notbad7490]

My wife would look like that it's called eternal beauty.

[@jimrainero7655]

Impressive but how long do you spend money on the afterlife instead of the here and now but it's very interesting and complicated work.

[@NW-kc7dn]

She was beautiful!!

[@Timotheus157]

Very beautiful woman.

[@Suupaye]

I thought this said “roasting a mummy” and I was like y’all didn’t have to do that to em

[@pamelabonaparte9383]

Fascinating

[@kellymichel7679]

Wow she was so beautiful!!

[@MsPescara]

what a dashing dott.

[@suecanada2313]

amazing !

[@sonjacrowell9896]

Awesome.

[@jackiebrown7229]

What a beautiful lady

[@maryattequine2416]

That mummy was really pretty actually if that was, in fact, how she used to look like or at least close it, then she was a beautiful woman.

[@johnromerodango2352]

Owner of the skull : *"THAT IS NOT MY HAIR WOULD LOOK LIKE ! But It's cute though"*

[@Emper0rH0rde]

This reminds me of an old Reading Rainbow episode where an artist was shown using clay to reconstruct the face of a mummified Egyptian woman.

[@RING141]

Just WOW

[@aimeethomson7806]

Seen this twice middle of the year in a arm chair

[@notyou1567]

Can they 3d print them now?

[@davidthedeaf]

I would like to know more about the mummy woman, who she was, how olde when died, and her medical history.

[@patriciajrs46]

She looks very good. Nice job. Who was she? Do you know?

[@ElanaVital83]

Poor girl dies of dental problems? Ouch.

[@thehalalreviewer]

She looks like the Modern Egyptian Actress Samar Allam!!!!!!!!

[@JeevesReturns]

...and it’s so hard to be still during these scans 😹

[@matthewfivefortyfourbible5870]

This ancient Egyptian was beautiful!!

[@solortus]

How do they figure out the nose??

[@LightHolmes]

The Egyptians weren't wrong when they thought mummification preserved their bodies for the eternal afterlife. Here they are, their images brought back to life, and their memories echoed across the times.

[@Luckypuk333]

How accurate are these reconstructions?

[@bondjames-bond7664]

No one's knows for sure ... But should be decently accurate ....

[@tommyhodges2105]

She was beautiful from the past.

[@mikii5939]

Wow she is beautiful!

[@GroteGlon]

i HAVE to watch this for school

[@kylekibbles8144]

Glenn Bakker lucky! I wish I could learn about the ancient world especially Egypt,but instead I half to learn about hitler in history and in geography I half to learn about global warming and tree loss.😒

[@GroteGlon]

Kyle Kibbles maby next year😁😁😘👍👍👍

[@williamhaddad46]

ele tinha traços suaves e um rosto muito bonita ..a boca bem desenhada...linda egípcia

[@vikashdenzil]

Nice to know that ancient Egyptians met the modern standards of "beauty" with those perfectly plucked eyebrows.

[@sisuguillam5109]

Egyptians were very much into cosmetics. They have found ancient make-up 'boxes'. So we have a fairly good idea what they did. And the statues and paintings do help, of course.

[@crystalgoode8411]

This first guy is gorgeous...oh and video was 👍

[@loribollinger2457]

Fascinating ,she is quite beautiful. What a work of art to have this gift to sculpture ancient skulls.

[@Asua22]

Wow that mummy is so beautiful, i wonder how close to the real person that reconstruction is

[@thehalalreviewer]

The reconstruction looks like so many modern Egyptian girls walking around TODAY!!!!

[@solitary1122]

WoooooooooW Fantastisch

[@jefffriedberg]

That was startling.

[@davidlloyd1283]

How did they decide what her hair would look like?

[@sidneybaldwin3744]

Come through boxbraids 😂😂

[@EPUEPUEPUEPU]

Looking at the skull alone , i am confused how her nose got thinner

[@hellothere-nv8gc]

Oh wow

[@mamabear9646]

This first guy is the only person ever to sound how he looks

[@kirarasmom4274]

Who is she?

[@JokerzPrincezz]

All y’all like “she’s so pretty” y’all that’s bc she’s got no pores, acne, scars, dark circles, fine lines or freckles.

[@taigalilly]

Freckles are adorable, not a blemish

[@marielaveau6362]

what's wrong with freckles. I have some and I always get nice complements on them.

[@harsh3355]

She's drop-dead gorgeous

[@allatgoddess8961]

"Taken from MOdern day Egyptians" Depends on which Egyptians. The top echelon are descended from the Arab conquerors, and the bottom of Society, the farmers, poor, are the genetic line of the Original Egyptians. They look NOTHING alike.

[@regin189]

indeed. That was a scientific flaw. Just because the skul is found in some area of the world and asuming the current people living there must be descendents or relativ close related to the owner of the skull is just fooling around, ofcourse the end result will be that it shows a face simelar to modern egyptians.

[@XaeeD]

Stop making stuff up

[@Fucoc]

The forensic egyptologist probably already know this.

[@AlphaMaverick1111]

Stop peddling lies. "Original" Egyptians looked similar to the modern Egyptian population.

[@ThatisnotHair]

Bullshit

[@purplevamp3132]

She was so beautiful...

[@berylackermann8240]

What a beautiful looking woman she was. Does one tell by the bones that she seemed to be youngish. (25 to 35)?

[@mokko759]

Her eye sockets seem unnaturally huge.

[@allim.5941]

Dr. Ryan is pretty cute... Isolation is getting to me, lol.

[@merendobereglidditz9304]

Has more than one artist reconstructed the same skull and if so, what, if any differences were there? Had to be some...💀

[@noname-pd9lt]

and how accurate is this?

[@gorgeouss3245]

Woah! Now we can see people's faces long ago...interesting...

[@oregonwanderer]

She's beautiful.

[@shamilfsobhanstandwithukra3937]

is that merritamun?

[@thomasplouffe1363]

I just hear in the beginning background a baby or toddler screaming

[@Kofman2012]

вот это она красивая ))♥♥♥

[@glendahawkins9480]

She was beautiful.

[@zpitfiyer]

Dr Ryan Jeffries. 😍

[@zeepicks]

Wow I know Egyptian actress that's look similar to her!

[@SinorBlim]

She's gorgeous

[@99starl1ght]

shes beautiful

[@gnolan4281]

Fascinating. No mention of how her approximate age was established.

[@sisuguillam5109]

Anthropologists look for developmental stages in bones. For example: have certain bones fused yet. naturalhistory.si.edu/education/teaching-resources/written-bone/skeleton-keys/young-or-old#:~:text=Skeletons%20are%20good%20age%20markers,age%20are%20in%20the%20pelvis.