The identity of an Egyptian mummy has baffled archaeologists for centuries. Now they know what she may have looked like.
The mummy of a woman who may have been pregnant when she died has baffled archaeologists in search of clues about her true identity. Now, two facial approximations by forensic specialists are offering new insight into what this ancient Egyptian woman may have looked like, disclosing yet another secret that she held onto for centuries.
"Modern techniques enable us to perform a virtual autopsy of the mummy," Wojciech Ejsmond , co-director of the Warsaw Mummy Project, told Live Science in an email."We can look under the bandages and inside her body. For the first time her face will be [revealed] to the general public and everyone will be able to look at her face.
She added,"The face that covers the bone structure follows different anatomic rules, thus standard procedures can be applied to reconstruct it, for example to establish the shape of the nose. The most important element is the reconstruction of the thickness of the soft tissues at numerous points on the surface of the facial bones. For this, we have statistical data for various populations across the globe.
The facial reconstructions provide more insight into a woman whose identity continues to elude archaeologists, who at one time thought the mummy belonged to a male priest.
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