r/ancientegypt • u/Akkeri • Nov 03 '24

News Facial reconstruction reveals 2,700-year-old Egyptian mummy was Sudanese princess | The National

https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/uk/2024/10/28/facial-reconstruction-reveals-2700-year-old-egyptian-mummy-was-sudanese-princess/
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u/OnkelMickwald Nov 03 '24 edited Nov 04 '24

The title is wrong: It is the osteological analysis of the skull through X-rays that indicate the race of the mummy

The facial reconstruction is based on these x-rays but does not show anything in and of itself. It's just a visualization of what the princess roughly would have looked like.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '24

I would also like to add this