Scientists recreate face of 3,500-year-old Egyptian pharaoh who founded the Valley of the Kings

Daily Mail ^ | 26 September 2024 | Ellyn Lapointe

[mairdie]

Graphics experts have recreated the face of a pharaoh who founded the Valley of the Kings and rewrote history in ancient Egypt.

Amenhotep I - the second ruler of Egypt's 18th Dynasty - is thought to have died 3,500 years ago at around age 35 before being painstakingly preserved through mummification.

He was the first to be buried in the Valley of the Kings - the resting site of almost all the Pharaohs of the 18th, 19th and 20th dynasties.

[mairdie]

Love to see them turning history into pictures that could be living, breathing humans again.

[mairdie]

Lovely reconstruction.

[teeman8r]

i want to donate my body to science so they can recreate my face from my skull to see how close they can get it... my thought is it’s too formulaic...

[Fai Mao]

Comments at the article are funny

[Tench_Coxe]

Well at least he doesn’t look like Jean Luc Picard or the Geico caveman like a lot of recreations....

[ArtDodger]

I noticed no one who actually knew the guy argued with the likeness. Must be accurate.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

When they have done reconstructions and have pictures to compare to it generally ends up "close but not exact".

[Varda]

I’d say the skin color is way too dark. Ancient Egyptians were lighter skinned than modern day ones.

“Both types of genomic material showed that ancient Egyptians shared little DNA with modern sub-Saharan Africans. Instead, their closest relatives were people living during the Neolithic and Bronze ages in an area known as the Levant. Strikingly, the mummies were more closely related to ancient Europeans and Anatolians than to modern Egyptians.” https://www.nature.com/articles/546017a

[Joe 6-pack]

It looks like Shia Labeouf.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks mairdie.

[Obadiah]

[Obadiah]

I think I saw that guy yesterday at Wawa.

[Billthedrill]

'In general terms, the statues of Amenhotep I are compatible in the nose region, but more gracile in the glabella region and more projected in the chin region.'

I had to check this one out in the mirror - yup, I have a gracile glabella region. Good to know.

It means a slender area of skin between the eyebrows and above the nose. Dang scientists.

[Darksheare]

Saw that guy driving Uber the other day.

[madison10]

He looks like my niece’s boyfriend, except the boyfriend has blue eyes.

[dadfly]

bookmark.

[logi_cal869]

I say put him back.

[Ken H]

[PfromHoGro]

Baretta?

[Fledermaus]

Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.