Reconstruction Reveals Mummy's Face

Discovery Channel ^ | April 27, 2005 | Jennifer Viegas

[nickcarraway]

'Bess' Reconstructed

The Reconstruction Guidelines

[politicket]

Her organs were removed, wrapped in linen bundles, and placed inside her body; she has gold foil covering the incision, a couple of amulets placed inside her, and her brain was removed.

It looks like they were preparing her to be a Democrat...

[Imaverygooddriver]

Step 1:

Step 2:

Step 3:

Process complete:

[Bellflower]

Bess looks more like a Less

[jigsaw]

It looks like they were preparing her to be a Democrat...

LOL!!!!!

[Dustbunny]

In todays world that wealth would have been spent on plastic surgery to improve her looks which certainly needed improving.

[PigRigger]

LMAO.....Too funny....

[JudyB1938]

There has to be a reason that all of these people look so much alike?

[madison10]

There has to be a reason that all of these people look so much alike?

Yeah, it's always the same person recreating the faces. It's the recreator's dad & mum.

[madison10]

Seriously, maybe peoples of Phoenician/Egyptian origin were the first to land in the Americas.

[blam]

"There has to be a reason that all of these people look so much alike?"

No hair?

However, the middle picture of Bess looks nothing like Kennewick Man and Spirit Cave man.

[uglybiker]

There has to be a reason that all of these people look so much alike?

They're all anscestors of Patrick Stewart.

[JudyB1938]

I personally believe that people scattered all across the face of the world before the continents were split, so that's why the "general" (not identical) looks of those three are similar.

Madison10, your same thought occurred to me though. I've noticed in forensic science that individual sculptors have similar looks in their skull recreations.

UglyBiker, wouldn't it be fun to compare the DNA of Kennewick Man with Patrick? If it matched, wouldn't that be a hoot! Makes me laugh just to think about it!

[kAcknor]

I don't know.. But I found another one...

[blam]

"I personally believe that people scattered all across the face of the world before the continents were split, so that's why the "general" (not identical) looks of those three are similar."

There were no humans when the continents split. Africa and South America started splitting 120 million years ago.

[blam]

"UglyBiker, wouldn't it be fun to compare the DNA of Kennewick Man with Patrick? If it matched, wouldn't that be a hoot! Makes me laugh just to think about it!"

You mean like this guy:

DNA sample links 2 men, 9,000 years apart

July 31, 1997
Web posted at: 3:40 p.m. EDT (1940 GMT)

CHEDDAR, England (CNN) -- Adrian Targett is a regular guy in Cheddar, a schoolteacher. His extended family is another matter -- real cavemen, some of them.

Or at least, thousands of years ago they were. Targett learned recently that he is the direct descendant of a man who lived 9,000 years ago, and whose bones were found at the turn of the century in Cheddar's famous caves.

Scientists compared the DNA from one of Cheddar Man's molars to that of scrapings taken from the mouths of 20 local Cheddarites, and Targett was a match.

[JudyB1938]

That's exactly the story I had in mind.

[JudyB1938]

That's where you and I "split". LOL

I believe the continents split apart in Peleg's day four generations after Noah.

"And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided ... -Genesis 10:25

(In fact, Peleg means "division".)

[JudyB1938]

Hey, maybe HE's the prehistoric one - not the others. He's just in a time warp. (grin)

[GreenHornet]

"We have claimed her a rich woman because of the way she was mummified," Reynolds told Discovery News. "Her organs were removed, wrapped in linen bundles, and placed inside her body; she has gold foil covering the incision, a couple of amulets placed inside her, and her brain was removed

Had Kerry won, she'd be the First Lady today.