Find out what people who lived thousands of years ago looked like

It is always curious to know what the physical appearance of people in the past was like. For this, we have to resort to old photos (when dealing with cases from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century). But for older situations where there are not even paintings, it is necessary to resort to bones.

But technology has come a long way, and today experts can very accurately recreate the appearance of someone who lived a long time ago. For example, there is skull-based face restoration. With the help of this method it is possible to recreate the appearance of a person according to the structure and relief of that part of the body. Check out the reconstructions below of the faces of people who lived hundreds or thousands of years ago: some of them even look like they are alive!

O awesome.club brings you the chance to look back and dispel myths about what some historical figures looked like, to be sure that they were much more like us than we can imagine.

This man lived in the Neolithic period. He was buried some 5,500 years ago in what is now Great Britain. In fact, he was born 500 years before Stonehenge was built. The recreated individual was between 25 and 40 years old at death.

This young woman, known as Ava, died about 3,700 years ago. Her remains were found in Scotland, in a tomb carved into a rock, which was unusual at the time. Scottish archaeologist Maya Hoole and forensic artist Hugh Morrison were able to recreate her features.

The pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, one of the most important people in the nation’s history, ruled from around 1332 to 1323 BC He came to the throne when he was just 10 years old and died before reaching 20. Thanks to thorough studies and a CT scan on his mummy in 2005, the world got a chance to know what the boy pharaoh looked like. As we can see, the youth could very well go unnoticed today.

This girl lived in Athens and died at age 11, around 430 BC It was around this time that ancient Greek civilization reached its height.

The Dutch National Museum of Antiquities has reconstructed the face of the ancient Roman leader. For this, the team scanned a marble bust of Julius Caesar, which was part of the institution’s collection. Well, we had a different idea of ​​the physical appearance of the Roman politician.

On August 24, 79 d. C., the catastrophic eruption of the volcano Vesuvius destroyed the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. According to some data, between 16 and 20 thousand people died as a result of the natural disaster, and this man was one of them. A UK forensic specialist restored the subject’s face based on an X-ray and other skull data. Experts dubbed him the “unknown man”, only. The truth is that they didn’t find anything that gave clues about his life or social status.

This young woman was among 20 people who tried to escape the tragedy caused by the eruption of Vesuvius under a boat cover. She possibly was from a wealthy family.

This boy lived in Scotland during the Middle Ages. He was between 13 and 17 years old, and he may have died in a hospital at the time. First, experts turned to forensic techniques to restore facial muscles and tissue. Then they used a computer program to fully recreate the face.

The English king, the last of the Plantagenet Dynasty, lived in the second half of the 15th century. In Shakespeare’s work, Richard III appears as the incarnation of cruelty and cunning. However, historians still argue about the personality of the monarch: after all, it is not easy to analyze all the palace intrigues or the complexities of the past. His remains were found a few years ago in a parking lot. His face model was constructed based on data obtained from studying his skull.

King of the Huguenots, Henry of Navarre lived between 1553 and 1610, and founded the House of Bourbon. The monarch cared for his people, so he was nicknamed “the good King Henry”. He was murdered by a fanatic when he was 57 years old. Based on his remains, experts recreated on the computer the closest image of his real appearance.

The renowned German composer lived and worked between the 17th and 18th centuries, leaving more than a thousand musical works as a legacy. He dominated virtually every major genre of the time, with the exception of opera. Data resulting from the analysis of his skull allowed the reconstruction of his face.

Maximilien de Robespierre was one of the leaders of the French Revolution. Ironically, he died on the guillotine, at the hands of his former followers. Specialists performed a 3D reconstruction of his face, based on a posthumous mask. The results of the reconstruction of his physical appearance turned out to be as contradictory as the personality of Robespierre himself.

Which of the above reconstructions did you find most surprising?