Face of pharaoh Tutankhamun’s grandmother reconstructed from 3,400-year-old remains

A PH๏τoshop artist has recreated the face of Queen Tiye – King Tutankhamun’s grandmother – using her 3,400-year-old mummified remains.

The artist used the technology to overlay features such as her eyes, nose and mouth onto the image, blending them into her incredibly preserved bone structure.

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‘PH๏τoshop Surgeon’ Used Mummy of Queen Tiye to Recreate Her Appearance

The ‘PH๏τoshop Surgeon’ – a digital artist who makes “dramatic improvements and transformations to pH๏τographs” – has revealed what Queen Tiye’s face might have looked like using images of her remains.

The video shows the artist working in PH๏τoshop, showing an image of Queen Tiye’s mummified face.

The artist started by placing the eyes in the sunken eye sockets, blending in the skin around the eyelids, then they moved on to her nose, which was carefully added to fit the remaining bone.

The artist added long, curly brown hair that fit the hairline of her skull and filled in her brow bones with tiny curls and even freckles, bringing the corpse’s face to life.

The artist also added more flesh to Queen Tiye’s face, giving her a fuller appearance as she might have appeared.

The artist also placed her mummified hand on her chest, but reanimated it, showing the wrinkles around her knuckles and the fingernails at her fingertips.

The end result was a beautiful woman with long black hair, large brown eyes, a heart-shaped mouth, and dark skin.

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The artist superimposed features such as eyes, nose and mouth, along with hair, eyebrows and eyelashes to create this result

Queen Tiye was the great Queen of the Egyptian Pharaoh AmenH๏τep III – who reigned from 1390–53 BC and lived from 1398 to 1338 BC.

She was the mother of AmenH๏τep IV – also known as Akhenaten – and remained a prominent figure in Egyptian royalty even after he ascended the throne.

Akhenaten went on to father Tutankhamun, or King Tutankhamun – the boy king who reigned from 1332 to 1323 BC.

Tutankhamun became pharaoh at the age of 8 or 9, and is famous today because his tomb is the most intact Egyptian royal tomb ever found.

Tiye was the daughter of Yuya, the commander of the Egyptian chariots, and an Egyptian woman named Thuya.

She had no royal blood, but despite this, her husband favored her among his many wives and frequently included her in state affairs.

Her name even appeared alongside that of the king on official documents.

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Queen Tiye’s mummy was discovered in 1898 in the tomb of AmenH๏τep II in the Valley of the Kings, but it wasn’t until 2010 that researchers confirmed her idenтιтy through DNA analysis

Queen Tiye’s remains were discovered by French archaeologist Victor Loret in 1898 in the tomb of AmenH๏τep II in the Valley of the Kings, but it took another century – in 2010 – for experts to identify them through DNA testing.

Loret discovered two female mummies among the many mummies buried inside AmenH๏τep II’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings – where most of the Pharaohs of the 18th, 19th and 20th dynasties were buried.

Before they were identified, these mummies were known as the “Old Lady” and the “Young Lady”.

Initially, experts believed that the “Old Lady” could be Queen Neferтιтi, who ruled during the 18th Dynasty as the first wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten, the son of Queen Tiye.

But a lock of hair found in a small coffin bearing an inscription bearing the name of Queen Tiye has been shown to be an almost exact match to the “Old Lady’s” hair.

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The statue depicts Queen Tiye

And in 2010, DNA analysis confirmed that the remains belonged to the daughter of Yuya and Thuya, Queen Tiye’s parents.

Queen Tiye died between the ages of 40 and 60.

Scientists have also reconstructed the faces of King Tut and his father, Pharaoh Akhenaten, showing that they shared similar features.

Scientists used a skull discovered in the Valley of the Kings nearly 100 years ago to piece together the appearance of Pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled from 1353 to 1335 BC.

The digital image shows a man in his 20s with a long jaw and piercing eyes, along with a skull shape and pointed nose that resemble King Tutankhamun.

The digital image of Akhenaten was created by the Center for Forensic Anthropology, Paleopathology, and Bioarchaeology (FAPAB) in Sicily, which used a skull from a mummy discovered in 1907.

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AmenH๏τep IV, also known as Akhenaten, remained a prominent figure in Egyptian royalty even after he ascended the throne. Pictured is a reconstruction of Akhenaten’s face

Akhenaten married one of his sisters, who bore him a son, but due to their incestuous relationship, Tutankhamen was born with a number of health problems that experts believe led to his early death.

And the reconstruction of his face and body has given the world a glimpse of the ailments he may have suffered.

King Tutankhamun had buck teeth, club feet and girlish hips, according to the most detailed examination yet of the remains of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh.

And rather than being a chariot-racing young king, Tutankhamun used a stick to get around during his reign in the 14th century BC, researchers say.

A “virtual autopsy”, involving more than 2,000 computer scans, was carried out alongside genetic analysis of Tutankhamun’s family, supporting evidence that his parents were siblings.

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Akhenaton went on to father Tutankhamun, or King Tutankhamun, the boy king who ruled from 1332 to 1323 BC. Pictured is a reconstruction of what King Tut might have looked like

Scientists believe this caused him to suffer from a hormonal imbalance that led to his physical decline. And his family history may have also contributed to his early death as a teenager.

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