Egypt
BBC News (Monise Durrani)
- Anthropologists Join In Work Of Reconstructing Mummy's Face
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- Facial Reconstruction Advances
Otago Daily Times (John Gibb) Revolutionary advances in the science of facial reconstruction may soon make it much easier to identify missing people, including crime victims, when little more than a skull has been found. Dr George Dias, a University of...
- Louisville Science Center's Mummy Is Female
Courier Journal (Sheldon S. Shafer) After extensive computer modeling, University of Louisville J.B. Speed School of Engineering experts believe they have finally determined the gender of the 2,600-year-old Egyptian mummy called Then-Hotep . . . . ...
- Simulating The Tomb Of Tutankhamun
http://tinyurl.com/rj2fj (thisisbradford.co.uk) New technology is being developed which will enabled archaeologists to create realistic simulations of sites and monuments, such as the tomb of Tutankhamun: "Researchers from the University of Bradford are...
- Conventions Of Egyptian Sculpture
Where did these reserve heads come out of and why did they not integrate into the conventions of Egyptian funerary sculpture? What had been the need for limestone heads with their features in plaster? Could it have been part of the death rituals, the...
Egypt
Putting a face to the past
BBC News (Monise Durrani)
What do Johann Sebastian Bach, Saint Nicholas, and the firstborn son of Pharaoh Rameses II all have in common?
The answer? All their faces have been reconstructed using cutting-edge computer technology.
Dr Caroline Wilkinson is a forensic anthropologist, recreating faces from human remains for archaeological and police investigations - bringing the past to life.
Her workshop at the University of Dundee is covered in model heads, created using traditional methods of layering clay on top of a plaster-cast skull. Sharing the space is a large computer system.
"Today we can use information from 3D surface scans or CT scans of the skull, import them, and use 3D modelling or 'virtual sculpture' to create the same muscles that we would create in real clay" said Dr Wilkinson.
- Anthropologists Join In Work Of Reconstructing Mummy's Face
pal-item.com (Rachel E. Sheeley) Forensic anthropologist Andi Simmons was up to her elbow in the interior cavity of the Wayne County Historical Museum's mummy and relishing every minute of it. Advertisement "It's just a phenomenal chance for us,"...
- Facial Reconstruction Advances
Otago Daily Times (John Gibb) Revolutionary advances in the science of facial reconstruction may soon make it much easier to identify missing people, including crime victims, when little more than a skull has been found. Dr George Dias, a University of...
- Louisville Science Center's Mummy Is Female
Courier Journal (Sheldon S. Shafer) After extensive computer modeling, University of Louisville J.B. Speed School of Engineering experts believe they have finally determined the gender of the 2,600-year-old Egyptian mummy called Then-Hotep . . . . ...
- Simulating The Tomb Of Tutankhamun
http://tinyurl.com/rj2fj (thisisbradford.co.uk) New technology is being developed which will enabled archaeologists to create realistic simulations of sites and monuments, such as the tomb of Tutankhamun: "Researchers from the University of Bradford are...
- Conventions Of Egyptian Sculpture
Where did these reserve heads come out of and why did they not integrate into the conventions of Egyptian funerary sculpture? What had been the need for limestone heads with their features in plaster? Could it have been part of the death rituals, the...