With a little imagination and a little technology, it is possible to recreate the faces of different members of the Ancient Egyptian royalty. There are different accounts on YouTube that show how the faces of different characters in the story will look using design tools.

For example, PhotoshopSurgeon channel where you can see different transformations using Photoshop program. One of the most surprising clips shows the face of Queen Tiy, the wife of Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III, who was Akhenaten’s mother and Tutankhamun’s grandmother.

In the video you can see how the queen was “revived”. 3400 year old mummy. This is a step-by-step virtual tour that takes just over three minutes.

The rest of the channel shows all kinds of transformations made with the aforementioned editing tool: rejuvenation, property changes, gender and much more.

The Panagiotis Constantinou canal can be a good option for history lovers as technology is applied to recreate the features of different historical figures. There is a video that specifically shows human faces from pharaoh mummies, in the style of the previous clip.

Same time, Reconstructions of the queen’s faces can be found Elizabeth I of England, Hernan CortesRoman emperors and their characters from ancient Greece.

As mentioned, they are all creations using different digital reconstruction and editing techniques. But beyond these videos, there are scientific developments trying to know more precisely what different characters in history looked like, and that requires DNA analysis.

Reconstruction of faces using DNA more than 2,000 years old

It should be noted that at the end of 2021, a team of forensic researchers from a technology company reconstructed the faces of three men who lived in Ancient Egypt more than 2,000 years ago. based on incoming data DNA Researchers extracted from mummified remains created 3D models This is what these people look like at 25.

Scientists at the American company Parabon NanoLabs used an advanced process known as DNA phenotyping, which involves taking DNA samples and using the data to predict observable physical and biochemical characteristics of an organism, along with your age and skin color. The three men came from the ancient Egyptian city of Abusir al-Meleq, south of present-day Cairo.

The findings mark “the first time complete DNA phenotyping has been performed on human DNA at this age.”Parabon’s Director of Bioinformatics, Dr. Ellen Greytak said in a statement.

Explaining the difficult process, the scientist said that working with ancient human DNA can be difficult for two reasons: DNA is often highly degraded and is often mistaken for bacterial DNA.

Mummy specimens estimated to be between 2,023 and 2,797 years oldIt has been processed by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Tübingen in Germany, institutions that have been working with the American company since 2017.

The mummy trio named JK2134, dated to 776-569 BC, JK2888, estimated to have lived around 97-2 BC, and JK2911, believed to have lived between 769-560 BC. The scientists obtained data from the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) before sequencing and “aligning with the reference human genome.”. Enzymatic damage repair was then performed on each sample.

how was the process

Scientists use to predict skin color, pigmentation and ancestry in males used a phenotyping method called Snapshot. Using this method, scientists determined that the skin color of the subjects light brown, dark hair and eyes and freckles.

Later researchers created 3D meshes that describe the facial features of mummies. They calculated heatmaps to highlight the differences between the three men and improve the details of each face. After that, Parabon’s forensic scientist combined these results with Snapshot’s predictions of people’s facial features.