Scientists Reconstructed Famous Historical Faces, And The Results Are Fascinating

We have seen many representations of famous people from history, whether they’re rendered through sculptures or paintings, but with the progress of technology we can now finally see full facial reconstruction.

Using CGI, CT scans and 3D printing, scientists have recreated famous historical figures like King Tutankhamun, Julius Caesar, Shakespeare and even Queen Elizabeth I, the latter being a bit spooky considering she is an animatronic!

Let’s check them out in the next photos and see how they really looked back then when they were making history.

King Tutankhamun

The Pharaoh of Egypt, King Tut reigned between 1334-1324 B.C. His tomb was discovered in 1922 and they revealed the sarcophagus. Years of studies revealed that the young pharaoh was a frail boy, with a heavy overbite.

But that’s not everything scientists learned about the young ruler after scanning his remains for over 2,000 times.

King Tutankhamun Reconstructed

Tut became a pharaoh at 9 years old and at 19 he died because of malaria. However, scans also showed that the boy had a fractured leg and a lot of body deformities because of the tradition of inbreeding, to keep the royal bloodline pure.

Murals and representations show Tut performing many tasks while sitting down – even archery, which can only confirm that he was a frail boy, with hips improperly formed and other afflictions.

Queen Nefertiti

We’ll stick to Egypt to see Queen Nefertiti as well. She reigned next to her husband from 1353-1336 B.C, and after his death too.

The representations of Nefertiti shows she was a powerful queen, and she became famous in 1913 when archaeologists discovered this statue which was buried upside down in the sand.

The bust shows an extremely beautiful woman, but the CT scan and reconstruction reveal something entirely different!

Queen Nefertiti Reconstructed

Under the bust we saw in the previous photo, the sculptor hid another one made of limestone, and thanks to CT scans, we see that Nefertiti was still a beautiful woman, but she had a bump on her nose.

She was the mother of 6 children, one of them becoming the mother of King Tut, but the unsettling detail is that King Tut’s father was Nefertiti’s husband, explaining why the young pharaoh had underdeveloped.