5,000 years is just an instant in time. Why would they think she would look any different from a person alive today?
I heard the wimmen grew beards in them days ....
Bingo....
Good question. It reminds me of those shocked by the discovery a man in Britain was demonstrably related to a man who lived 9000 years ago in the same little area, after investigating DNA salvaged from the latter. I guess it could be considered cute that many journalists think Europeans must have come down on sunbeams rather than having lived and died and left descendants like people everywhere else on earth.