When you hear the words 'face reconstruction' you probably think about the police trying to make an image of a missing person or a wanted criminal. However, face reconstruction can also be used for other purposes. National Geographic recently made a face reconstruction by putting together 190.000 photographs. The reconstructed face was meant to be the most typical person in the world. Check how typical you are in the video below!
Now I have this other great example of face reconstruction. Do you remember Ötzi the old Iceman? When they found the mummy in 1991 in the south of Tirol in Austria he looked like this. Ötzi is with its 5300 years the oldest Homo Sapiens we know of.
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| Ötzi |
Recently the brothers Alfons an Adrie Kennis made a completely new reconstruction of the face of Ötzi, which makes us now think that Ötzi should have looked like this:
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| Face reconstruction of Ötzi |
He had an average length, was thin and had hollow eyes above gaunt cheeks. He looks tired and was probably sick. His hairstyle and beard show he lived a life in the woods. De reconstruction was made based on a 3D-model of the skull and skeleton of the mummy. In addition hundreds of X-rays images were being used. A new exposure of this fascinating mummy was opened on the 1st of March in the Südtiroler Archäologiemuseum with 'a mummy between science, cult and myth' as a subheading. The body of Ötzi himself can be seen in a museum in Bolzano since 1998. Hopefully the brothers Kennis stay alive, since 7 people who were studying Ötzi have died in strange circumstances.......
More information over the death of these people can be found here (written in Dutch): Death of researchers
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