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Nefertiti Resurrected

The technique has major advantages over old-fashioned clay reconstruction.
If I did a reconstruction in clay from a skull, and then a little later I did another one, I'd get a slightly different face.
But, with a computer, if we have the same skull and the same data, we get the same face.
Once complete, the face is handed to a graphic artist for the finishing touches.
Could the mummy's face really be that of Nefertiti?
70 days after Nefertiti's death, her mummification is complete.
The royal embalmers cast spells and perform rituals to help preserve the body for all eternity.
She's now ready to meet her god.

She led an extraordinary life.
Child bride, queen, living goddess and pharaoh, heretic.
A revolutionary who tried to transform Egypt and failed, plunging her country into a maelstrom that may have led to her death.
Joann believes Nefertiti was buried in the Valley of the Kings, her funeral procession led by her stepson King Tut, and her daughter Ankhesenamun, the new heirs to her throne.
Little did the children suspect their mother's mortal remains would be violated.
The unforgiving priests of Amun, the men Nefertiti and her husband tried to destroy, exacted a terrible retribution.
In Karnak, the monuments she helped build were defaced, torn down, and trampled into dust.