Pharaoh's 'handsome' face seen for first time in 3,200 years in reconstruction

The Mirror UK ^ | 29 Dec 2022 | Michael HavisSara Odeen-Isbister

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The mummified remains of ancient Egypt's most powerful pharaoh have been used to reveal what he would have looked like at the height of his powers.

Ramessess II's "handsome" face can be seen for the first time in 3,200 years thanks to the new scientific reconstruction.

Using a 3D model of his skull to rebuild his features, scientists from Egypt and England initially worked together to create the pharaoh’s likeness when he died around 90 years old.

They then reversed the ageing process...

[Jonty30]

It looks like he has a little bit of a Hapsburg thing going on.

[teeman8r]

He looks nothing like his sarcophagus.

[Cronos]

The Pharaohs were even more heavily inbred than the Hapsburgs.

The H’s at least at worst married first cousins. The Pharaohs married their full-blood sisters...

[Adder]

Doesn’t look like a very effective condom salesman...

[Jemian]

The author has a different definition of “handsome” than I do.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Why would you ever date outside the family?

[rlmorel]

Hahahahahahaha!

[maddog55]

I guess horse ass ugly is good looking now... makes sense in today’s world.

[Jewbacca]

“He looks nothing like his sarcophagus.”

He took after his dad, not his mummy.

[Jewbacca]

Their “gods” siblings married each other, so they followed suit.

That said, the inbreeding explains why the Pharoah of Exodus didn’t catch a clue. He was a moron.

[Tax-chick]

Some of the Hapsburg marriages were uncle-niece.

[Flavious_Maximus]

Well the mummy does have a resemblance to Yul Brynner in the Ten Commandments film. Etc, etc.

[A_perfect_lady]

Boy, they are terrible at eyebrows.

[dead]

Looks like Fauci.

[Sirius Lee]

Boy, they are terrible at eyebrows.

"I'm not angry!"

[dljordan]

“He took after his dad, not his mummy.”

Oh Lord.

[PghBaldy]

I guess everyone I know is either a “10” or an “11,” if that man is “handsome.” I am, of course a “12.”

[Jewbacca]

What they didn’t say, is Ramses shared his tomb with another pharoah.

The other pharaoh was found wrapped in gold, stuffed with wafers, hazelnuts, and cocoa.

They’re still not sure who the mysterious pharaoh is, but they believe him to be Pharaoh Rocher.

[logi_cal869]

RE mummy in the glass case:

I always marveled at how Egypt treated their ‘indigenous’ population in death. /s