Scientists Recreate Faces Of People Who Lived Centuries Ago, And Some May Surprise You

Yeah! He looks really friendly.

And why wouldn't he? What is incompatible about a king known for caring about his subjects' welfare and looking like a loving uncle?

statistical probability is not poetic interpretation. poetic interpretation is throwing darts at a wall.

Facial reconstruction artists have to take some liberties, especially when the human remains are as old as Ava's. In terms of skin/hair/eye color you generally also have to revert to supposition. You can typically get DNA from skeletal remains, and sometimes you get really lucky with the information you're able to get from it. I worked with skeletal remains in the Caribbean and we were able to glean from DNA that it was a 1200 year old skeleton and she was likely Carib Indian. So, if we were going to reconstruct her face we might go off of historic texts/journals from that time period that act as descriptors of the native peoples. For Ava that would be more difficult, so they would look more at climate for that time period, etc, although she may still look completely different in terms of those physical traits.

There was hair in the grave, and she was remarkably well preserved, when she was found having been in stone and not the earth...

Actually, she had dark eyes. black hair. and olive coloured skin.

Don’t talk about what you do not understand. (Browsing the net isn’t equal to actual knowledge. You’re just pretending.)

sometimes there's hair and she was in stone

Forget all that. I spent like 5 minutes trying to find something computer generated about that picture. Wow.

Nice work GreenGiraffe - you've clearly done your homework ;)

That's not exactly true, since we can trace back the content of our ancestor's DNA from our own.

How do they know she didn't have numerous scars from the copious beating cavemen gratuitously rained down on their #metoo women, you know, like the #moronPresident?

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Thanks, Tomatoe, but I'd rather do my own research than trust someone who spells "tomato" incorrectly. And "albeits"? "Nonetheless" is one word, not three. Turn on your spell checker before making your pedantic comments. Thanks for coming out!

She was not a neanderthal. The neanderthals had been extinct for about 30,000 to 35,000 years before her time.

You would be surprised how good humans teeth was in the Stoneage. Bronze age onworth they got worse because of bread and beer diet. In the industrial age, the poor people living in countryside had the best teeth, because the rich indulged in sugar and such stuff.

My word.

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The Current Egyptian look you are compared too did not exist 2000 years ago. People in north africa was more like a generic "Mediterranean Sea"-people, with euro and african features mixed. I would even say her skin is too dark.

How are her features European??? I’m Egyptian with almost the same features as her except I have a bump on my nose and thinner lips. What kind of features were you expecting? I can’t stand these dumb comments.

Grave robbers often destroy a lot in search of goods

She may have been very poor. Some Egyptian peasants could only afford some linen and a simple wooden box to bury their dead. Not everyone was privelaged enough to have a golden sarcophagus in a great pyramid.

I don't think it was Egyptian, maybe it's from somewhere else where they don't care that much about the rest of the body, idk

Exactly my thought. I'd imagine a much worse complexion, dirty hair, etc.

You don’t know that.

Clearly he wasn't malnourished as an adult. However 500 years ago child malnutrition was often the result of a succession of extreme winters & poor harvests or poverty.In hard times adults ate better than children.child hood malnutrition evidence is left in teeth and bones.Being poor didn't always mean you didn't get enough to eat (You may just not have owned property or had wealth) Heavy manual labor in Tudour timesprobably meant he did farm work .This would increase bone density but could also cause the bones to be shaped differently .There isn't enough information in the article to conclude he was "suffering" but the reconstruction indicates that up until he died he was relatively healthy which is perfectly possible.as the cause of death at age was not determined although testing indicated that the man was between 25 and 35 years old when he died, and about 5”6 tall. They based his colouring on 16th and 17th century illustrations of Irish People.

They made him look like Brad Pitt - completely unrealistic

Looks a LOT like Maester Aemon!